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Saunders, Prince
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
Word Count: 1357 Includes: Bibliography(b. c. 1775; d. February 1839),
schoolteacher, author, and statesman in two Haitian governments. Saunders was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, around 1775 and baptized in Thetford, Vermont, in 1784. He grew up in the home of a white lawyer named George Oramel Hinckley and later gained the patronage of John Wheelock, the president of Dartmouth College, and William Ellery Channing, a Unitarian minister and reformer from Boston, Massachusetts. These white men and others funded Saunders's education and later secured him teaching positions. Saunders taught at a school for black children in Colchester, Connecticut, in the 1790s, attended the Moor Indian Charity School of Dartmouth College from 1807 to 1808, and began teaching at the African School in Boston in 1808. He became the secretary of the1811 ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 1014 Includes: Bibliography?–1839
African American author and colonizationist. Prince Saunders was born in either Lebanon, Connecticut, or Thetford, Vermont, the son of Cuff Saunders and Phyllis (maiden name unknown). Although the exact date of Prince Saunders's birth remains unknown, he was baptized on July 25, 1784 in Lebanon and received his early schooling in Thetford. He taught at a black school in Colchester, Connecticut, and later studied at Moor's Charity School at Dartmouth College in 1807 and 1808. President John Wheelock (1754–1817) of Dartmouth recommended Saunders as instructor at Boston's African School in late 1808. By 1811Saunders was secretary of the African Masonic Society and had founded the Belles Lettres Society, a literary group. He also taught at the African Baptist Church in Boston, founded byThomas ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 979 Includes: Further Reading(?–Feb. 1839), author and colonizationist, was born in either Lebanon, Connecticut, or Thetford, Vermont, the son of Cuff Saunders and Phyllis Saunders (maiden name unknown). Although the exact date of Prince Saunders's birth remains unknown, he was baptized on 25 July 1784 in Lebanon and received his early schooling in Thetford. He taught at a black school in Colchester, Connecticut, and later studied at Moor's Charity School at Dartmouth College in 1807 and 1808. President John Wheelock of Dartmouth recommended Saunders as instructor at Boston's African School in late 1808. By 1811 Saunders was secretary of the African Masonic Society and had founded the Belles Lettres Society, a literary group. He also taught at the African Baptist Church in Boston, founded by Thomas Paul. He wasCaptain ...
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