James Forten was nine years old when the Declaration ... and was later captured by the British navy while serving in the Revolutionary War. And that was just his teenage years.

He was born in colonial Philadelphia in 1766 and fought for freedom all his life — yet James Forten is not ... the Royal Louis, making Forten a prisoner of war aboard a "floating jail" crawling ...

James Forten was a free man of African descent ... People of African descent played a prominent role in the Revolutionary War. Around 20,000 fought for the British , and 5,000-8,000 fought in ...

James Forten was an American abolitionist, a founding member of the Free African Society, and a stalwart participant in the Revolutionary War.

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary War ... famous black seamen was James Forten, who enlisted on the privateer ...

James Forten was a sailmaker and a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War who helped build a free African-American community in Philadelphia. The Museum of the American Revolution ...

The historic book will help the museum show how the long tail of Revolutionary ideology carried through generations after the war. Atwood ''Kip'' Forten Jacobs, the great-great-great-great-grandson of ...

James Forten was just 15 years old when he served as a gunpowder ... where about 11,000 sailors died of disease and malnutrition during three years of the Revolutionary War. Forten spent seven months ...

Atwood "Kip" Forten Jacobs and his daughter, Taylor Jacqueline Rodriguez Jacobs, direct descendants of Philadelphian abolitionist and Revolutionary War veteran James Forten, have donated their ...

“A lot of people don’t know the Black founders,” she said, “with James Forten Sr. and his pivotal role as a Founding Father starting from Revolutionary War time. It’s very meaningful to ...

his great-grandmother was the only family member who talked much about their ancestor James Forten, a free Black man who became a wealthy sailmaker in post-Revolutionary War Philadelphia.