Saturday, February 06, 2021
2021.0206.0002...
Click on headline to read this man's very interesting story...
They called him the Black Sparrow, and from the beginning of his life, all he wanted to do was get to France.
He was born in Georgia, his father a former slave from Haiti, his mother full-blooded Creek. He ran away while still a child, determined to fulfill his destiny.
He lived for a time with a group of English Romani, learning the art of horsemanship and working as a jockey. He kept traveling and working until he made his way to Norfolk, where he stowed away on a ship bound for Scotland.
He wouldn’t see America again for thirty years.
