James Jakob Williams
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James Jakob Williams
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James Jakob Williams was an African-American runaway slave and soldier. He took part in the Second Barbary War as a member of the US Navy and later alongside the Greek revolutionaries during the Greek War of Independence. Williams was severely injured fighting for the Greek cause and was discovered by American abolitionist and philhellene Jonathan Peckham Miller. Miller brought Williams to his home in Poros where he properly recovered and lived out the rest of his life as a free man in Greece.
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African-American runaway slave and marine
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jakob_Williams
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2023-09-09T21:41:48Z
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