Moses Roper

Biography

Moses Roper (c. 1815 – April 15, 1891) was an African American who is best known as an abolitionist, author and orator active in Great Britain and Ireland from the mid-1830s through the 1840s and 1850s. His memoir, known as a slave narrative, had numerous editions and sold nearly 40,000 copies, including 5,000 in Welsh. He had escaped from slavery in Florida in 1834, went North, and migrated overseas the next year.

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