Free Frank McWorter (Q491190)

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HC-PER-36852
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Free Frank McWorter
HC-PER-36852
  • HC-PER-36852

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Founded the town of New Philadelphia, Illinois, which was the earliest town legally founded by a free African American in the United States. His entrepreneurial activities ultimately enabled all his descendants to be purchased free from slavery
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Data excerpts from African American National Biography
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http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/opr/t0001/e2677
 
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