The Slave Inventor....... Part 1



Benjamin Thornton Montgomery a great black hero who was born in1819 and died in 1877 he was born into slavery. His parents were taking all the way from Africa to the United States of America, they were working in a plantation in Virginia and then gave birth to a son called Benjamin Montgomery. Benjamin Montgomery was born into slavery in a particular place in Virginia called De Louden Tontine in USA. When he 18 years old in 1837,he was taken away from his parents and sold into slavery to his new master called Joseph Davis who took him far away from Virginia to Mississippi, another state in USA.
His new master had a younger brother called Japhatson Davis and together they were called “the Davis Brothers”. When Benjamin arrived in Mississippi, he did not like it so he decided to escape even though he knew the penalty for escape is death. He escaped but was recaptured, his masters summoned him and asked why he did that, he said he wanted to be a freeman. The Davis brothers told him he has to work and pay them back the money they bought him with in order to be free which he agreed.
The Davis Brothers kept Ben in charge of their huge plantation and stores where they kept the grain which has been harvested. Ben took charge of the farm, worked very hard and diligently and he started producing more. The farms grew better, the stores were also filled with so many grains to the extent that the Davis Brothers were so impressed with his ability, and they promoted him. He was kept in charge of the pricing of all the products as well as the shipping Operations.

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