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Thomas H. Jones
Rev. Thomas H. Jones (1806-?) was born a slave in Wilmington, NC and was a prominent African-American abolitionist in antebellum America. Jones escaped slavery, traveled to Canada and subsequently relocated to Worcester, MA. Following years of working as an itinerant preacher and lecturer, Jones began a prominent figure within the Colored Conventions Movement. He served as a delegate to the 1859 New England Colored Convention. His narrative, The Experience of Thomas Jones, captures his early life as an enslaved person and his subsequent escape to slavery.
==Early life==
Born a slave, Jones grew up on the plantation of John Hawes near Wilmington, NC. At the age of nine Hawes sold him to Mr. Jones, a storekeeper in Washington, NC located about 45 miles from Hawes' plantation. Jones reports in his autobiography that, "Mr. Jones sent his slave driver, a colored man, named Abraham, to conduct me to my new home in Washington. I was at home with my mother when he came. He looked in at the door, and called to me, 'Tom, you must go with me.' His looks were ugly and his voice was savage. I was very much afraid, and began to cry, holding on to my mother's clothes and begging her to protect me, and not let the man take me away." Thomas H. Jones took his last name from Mr. Jones the storekeeper, for whome he worked as a house servant and then a store clerk. Jones obtained some education from Mr. Jones.
At the age of 20 Thomas married Lucilla Smith, a young women of 17 and slave to a neighbor, Mrs. Moore. Thomas and Lucilla had three children, Annie, Lizzie, and Charlie. Mrs. Moore eventually moved to Newburn, taking Thomas' family with her.
When Thomas was 23, Mr. Jones took ill and died. Thomas was purchased by Owen Holmes for $435,00. Thomas worked for Holmes as a stevedore until 1849, when he got word that Holmes was about to sell his family.〔 Thomas moved his family to the free northern states and eventually joined them after stowing away on a brig bound for New York City.
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