What is Boston King?
'''Boston King''' from ({{circa}} 1760–1802) was a former [[Afro-American]] [[slave]] and [[British]] [[loyalist (American Revolution)|loyalist]].<ref name=PBSonline>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p60.html |title=Boston King, c.1760 |publisher=PBS Online |access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> He was born a slave in [[South Carolina]] and was [[Apprenticeship|apprenticed]] as a [[carpenter]]. He joined the [[Great Britain|British]] when they occupied [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], as they promised freedom to slaves. Later, he gained his [[freedom]] from the British and settled in [[Nova Scotia]] after the [[American Revolutionary War]]. He later [[emigrated]] to [[Sierra Leone]], where he helped [[wikt:found|found]] [[Freetown]]. King became the first [[Methodist]] [[missionary]] in Africa.<ref name=DCB>{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/king_boston_5E.html |title=King, Boston |publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography/University of Toronto |access-date=28 January 2016}}</ref> King [[published]] his [[autobiography]] in 1798.<ref name=DCB/> He died about 1802 in Sierra Leone.<ref name=DCB/> == References == {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:King, Boston}} [[Category:1760 births]] [[Category:1802 deaths]] [[Category:African-American writers]] [[Category:American autobiographers]] [[Category:American Methodists]] [[Category:American revolutionaries]] [[Category:Carpenters]] [[Category:Christian missionaries]] [[Category:Sierra Leonean people]] [[Category:Writers from South Carolina]]