A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint

by Peter Meyler and David Meyler

Book Overview

Richard Pierpoint or Captain Dick, as he was commonly known, emerges from the shadows of history in A Stolen Life: Searching for Richard Pierpoint. An African warrior who was captured at about age 16, Pierpoint lived his remaining years in exile. From his birth in Bundu (now part of Senegal) around 1744 until his death in rural Ontario in 1837, Pierpoint's life allows us to glimpse the activity of an African involved in some of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896219551
• ISBN13: 9781896219554
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.2"