Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Job ben Solomon (b. circa 1701 - d. 1773)
MSA SC 5496-050585
Enslaved, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Newspapers and Journals -

Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 20, 1750, p.272

Books -

Bluett, Thomas. Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free, and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734. London, 1734. books.google.com

Coldham, Peter Wilson. Settlers of Maryland 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002.

Internet Sources -

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. "Abolition of the Slave Trade."
http://abolition.nypl.org/images/us_slave_trade/4/39

Gates, Henry Louis. "Which Slave Wrote His Way Out of Slavery?" The Root. 26 November 2012. <http://www.theroot.com/views/which-slave-wrote-his-way-out-slavery?wpisrc=root_lightbox>

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