Moses Grandy: From Enslavement to Unrelenting Liberator

Moses Grandy: From Enslavement to Unrelenting Liberator

By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Moses Grandy was a Black abolitionist, seaman, and author born into slavery around 1786 in Camden County, North Carolina. As Grandy recounted in his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America, he did not know his exact birth date—a reality for many enslaved people, whose births were rarely recorded. His first enslaver, Billy Grandy, was a harsh, alcoholic man …