title: The Slave From Woodbine
author:  Gilbert L Brought 
description: Now living in south east Georgia with my wife and son, this is my third novel released. My first novel was "The Machine" and the second was "Deserting the Hessian Army".
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  Biographical Memorials
  
  
  [PREFACE.](Biographical%20Memorials%20of%20James_split_001.html#filepos26556)
  
  [CHAPTER I. Parentage of
  
  
  Oglethorpe—Birth—Education—Christian Name—Education—Military
  
  
  Profession and Promotion—In the Suite of the Earl of
  
  
  Peterborough—Service under Prince Eugene of Savoy—Elected Member of
  
  
  Parliament—Visits a Gentleman in Prison—Moves in the House of Commons
  
  
  for a redress of the rigors of Prison Discipline—Appointed on the
  
  
  Committee—Extracts from his Speeches in Parliament.
  
  [CHAPTER II. Oglethorpe appointed first a Director,
  
  
  and then Deputy Governor of the Royal African Company—Takes a
  
  
  compassionate interest in the situation of an African kidnapped, sold
  
  
  as a slave, and carried to Annapolis, in Maryland, a Province in North
  
  
  America—But proves to have been an Iman, or assistant Priest, of Futa,
  
  
  and was named Job Solomon—Causes him to be redeemed, and sent to
  
  
  England, where he becomes serviceable to Sir Hans Sloan