Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America

Captured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom. The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on a

A biography of the free black man who became a wealthy Philadelphia sailmaker and active abolitionist.

A Coretta Scott King Award winner that is more timely than ever—excellent narrative nonfiction that's "history at its best."* Like Howard Zinn's People's Hist