The Fugitive Blacksmith - Tapa blanda

James W.C. Pennington (1809 - 1870) was an African American orator, minister, and abolitionist. Pennington was born a slave and after escaping to the North worked as a blacksmith while auditing classes at Yale Divinity School. He was the first black man to attend Yale. He wrote The Origin and History of the Colored People in 1841, which was the first history of African Americans. The Fugitive Blacksmith was an autobiographical slave narrative written in 1850.