Author: Staff writer

Prince Yonger, Crispus’ father was captured in Africa and to the north colony of Massachusetts where he was sold to Framingham landowner Colonel Buckminster. from Africa arrived in North America in the sixteenth century, a forced migration known as the Prince was captured in the African interior and traveled for months to reach the coast, in most cases forty percent of slaves died upon arrival to the coast. He then faced the dreadful transatlantic crossing. It took months to cross the Atlantic, men and women were packed in hulls and were brandished with hot irons. African regions where most of…

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