Struggle & Survival 4Garret Bishop

Jacob Young During the seventeenth century Jacob Young was a Dutch

mercenary who moved to the eastern united states. With a lively personality he was a well established fur trader with Indians and European manufactures. He felt it essential to learn the native languages of the local reigning tribes and became known as, Jacob, my friend.

Young was denounced by Lord Baltimore for allegedly hiring Indians to kill Christians. He was to be charged with high treason for the crimes he committed. With the allegations came a hard decision for the Upper and Lower courts, neither wanting to convict Jacob Young of high treason due to the sure hanging he would receive. The two courts changed their decisions and Young was released after a year of imprisonment with conditions that he pay heavy fines and exile himself from the Americas.

Young was liberated and helped make a treaty between Maryland and the Susquehannocks. He then moved to the hills and woods of Delaware and lived out the remainder of his busy life.

Red Shoes Shulush Homa, or Red Shoes as the English called him, was a

valued warrior and Diplomat in the Southern United States during the Mid eighteenth century. He lived in Couechitto an area highly effected by French settlement along the Carolina coast. He grew up alongside the French where he learned befriending the French was a necessity in surviving as a Choctaw Indian.

As war erupted among the Choctaw and the Chickasaw Indians Red Shoes became more and more of a war legend and around the 1720’s he received a new name, Soulouche Oumastabe, and eventually rose to become Red Shoes, war captain of Couechitto. He name and title were the highest rank a man of common birth could receive in the Choctaw nation.

As Red shoes power greatened he became a person to defeat. The French had felt they had found a useful tool by befriending Red shoes but latter realized it was Red Shoes who had acquired the French and been able to use them to his advantage. On June 23, 1747, Shulush Homa became ill and made his bed apart from his fellow Indian and English colleagues. After he fell into slumber he was killed by knife for the French price on his head.

Thomas Peters Thomas was a freedom fighter during the

Revolution between 1776 and 1783. he was captured by slave traders and taken to French Louisiana he was sold multiple times before November 1775, when Lord Dunmore offered lifelong freedom for any slave who bore arms and fought in the revolution. Due to harsh repercussions of attempting to be freed by British standards, Peters, his wife and son were evacuated from New York and moved to Nova Scotia. He longed for a return to Africa and finally reached its shore in 1792. He then died after 4 months on Africa.

Joseph Rachell & Rachael Pringle-Polgreen

Joseph- Rachell lived in the town of Bridgetown in the Barbados during the

beginning of the eighteenth century. Joseph was manumitted at an early age and being raised in Bridgetown he established many ties within his community and became a well know person amid Bridgetown. He got married to Elizabeth Cleaver at the age of 25 and had at least 3 children together.

Joseph was highly regarded when it came to trade and business. When imported goods came in many went to him to establish a price and when new cargo came into port Joseph was always offered first pick. Rachell became a success in the Barbadian society, he had rose to the highest social level allowed for mulattos in his generation.

Rachael- She lived around the mid eighteenth century, Rachael was born a slave

to a schoolmaster and a purchased African woman. She grew up working in her fathers store, this allowed her to grow up learning valuable business practices. Racheal was sold to a naval captain and soon after manumitted. She even adopted the name of the captain who freed her.

With the small house she was given by the naval captain she opened her tavern and hotel and after a year bought another much larger property in town. Her tavern and hotel business kept growing and by the time she died at the age of 38, she owned over ten properties in one Bridgetown area.