Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain [electronic resource] : a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last.
Joseph Mountain born 1758 in Philadelphia, son of a negro slave until she was 21 and a mulatto father, was the house servant of Samuel Mifflin. When he was seventeen, his master granted him permission to sail to London where he met two thieves, Francis Hyde and Thomas Wilson, and soon Mountain was acting as an accomplice to their crimes in and around London, York, and Newmarket. For a short time, Mountain worked as a ship cook, but soon returned to London and met up with a gang of highway robbers. Several years later, he married a young white woman, Nancy Allingame. He left her and, with Hyde and Wilson, resumed his former criminal activities. In 1789, he returned to America where a few days later, he was caught and whipped for stealing five dollars. Shortly after, he was arrested for rape, although Mountain claimed that the crime was assault. While waiting for his execution on October 20, 1790, he dictated this document.
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- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003.
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- Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Matthew Kern and Elizabeth S. Wright.This electronic edition has been transcribed from a microfilm supplied by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.Title from electronic title page (viewed Nov. 14, 2003).
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- Transcribed from the microfiche of: Sketches of the life of Joseph Mountain : a Negro, who was executed at New-Haven on the 20th day of October, 1790, for a rape, committed on the 26th day of May last. New Haven : Printed and sold by T. & S. Green, [1790?] 20 p. "Compiled by David Daggett, New Haven, 1790"--Handwritten on page preceeding title page.
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- Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
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- System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
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