The Colored Cadet At West Point - 9781717256263

He and his mother were the property of Rev. Reuben H. Lucky, a Methodist minister of that place. His father, Festus Flipper, by trade a shoemaker and carriage-trimmer, was owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a successful and influential slave-dealer. In 1859 Mr. Ponder, having retired from business, returned to Georgia from Virginia with a number of mechanics, all slaves, and among whom was the father of young Flipper. He established a number of manufactories in Atlanta, then a growing inland town of Georgia. He married about this time a beautiful, accomplished, and wealthy lady. "Flipper," as he was generally called, had married before this, and had been taken back alone to his native Virginia to serve an apprenticeship under a carriage-trimmer.

• | Author: Henry Flipper
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1717256260
• | ISBN-13: 9781717256263