 Complete the following phrase:  Peter Thomas Stanford February 21, 1858  May 20, 1909 was an African American religious minister and writer, born enslaved near Hampton, Virginia. His enslavers orphaned him after selling both of his parents to other plantations before he had turned five years of age. As an orphaned child, he likely lived briefly among the Pamunkey Native American Tribe before the Freedmens Bureau sent him to be adopted by a white family in Boston in 1866. His adoptive family abused him. As a stowaway in the coal box of a train in 1871 possibly aged 13 or 14 years old, Stanford self-emancipated from this captivity and arrived to freedom in New York City. Over the course of his life, he became an influential 