Belfield

by Joan Aleshire

This is a novel based on an incident in the life of Charles Willson Peale, Early American painter, Revolutionary War veteran, inventor, museum founder, farmer. Although he opposed slavery publicly, Peale accepted an enslaved family into his household as payment for a debt. He freed the husband and wife after a few years, but held their son, Moses Williams, until he was 26, and taught him to be a profile cutter, working in his Philadelphia natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CDR3BCD7
• ISBN13: 9798988382072
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"