Samuel Ringgold Ward

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Samuel Ringgold Ward (October 17, 1817 – c. 1866) was an African American abolitionist and newspaper editor.

Ward was born in Maryland to slave parents. In 1820, when Ward was three years old, his family escaped to New Jersey. They later settled in New York, where Ward attended the African Free School.

Ward moved to Jamaica in late 1855, and died there, most probably in 1866.

[edit] External links and references

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Ward, Ringgold Samuel. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England. John Snow: London: John Snow, 1855. accessed on 23 October 2005 at [1]
• Documenting the American South article on Samuel Ringgold Ward