When James Forten was 14 years old		because he had saved people from drowning.
The son of a ship's captain		to educate his children.
While on a British prison ship		but educated himself by reading.
James only had two years of schooling		saved Forten from being captured and enslaved.
After the war was over, Forten		sought to relocate free blacks to Liberia in Africa.
When he returned to Philadelphia he		to help other people.
He once received a plaque		he befriended and helped free Daniel Brewton.
He invented a new kind of sail and became		worked for a year in a London shipyard.
He used his money		urged blacks to remain in America and claim their rights.
The American Colonization Society		eventually bought a business, making sails for ships.
His "Letters From a Man of Colour"		he served in the Continental Army as a powder boy.
He hired tutors		one of the wealthiest African-Americans of his time.