Philip Freneau

Philip Freneau was born in New York in 1752; his father, of Huguenot origin, was a wine merchant. He grew up in Monmouth County, New Jersey, then studied at Princeton, close to James Madison and a friend of Hugh Henry Brackenridge. He gave up teaching and theology, then spent two years on Saint Croix, in the West Indies, where he saw slavery. Captured at sea by the English in 1780, he endured six weeks on prison ships. He then ran in Philadelphia, with the support of Jefferson and Madison, a gazette hostile to the Federalists, retired to his land and died in 1832 in a snowstorm.

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• PoetryThe Wild Honey SucklePhilip Freneau · 1786Literature