William B. Gould was a former slave and veteran of the American Civil War. Gould was born to a slave woman and perhaps an Englishman. On September 21, 1862, Gould escaped slavery with seven other slaves by rowing a small boat 28 nautical miles down the Cape Fear River and out into the Atlantic Ocean […]
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