Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — A Lord Sold Into Slavery. [ARTICLE]

A Lord Sold Into Slavery.

Charles Rea 4& found the hero of bis novel, "The Wandering Ileir,” in the person of Lord Altham of Ireland, who was sold as a “redemptioner” at Philadelphia in 1728 and who served for twelve years in effect as a slave to one or more masters in Lancaster county, Pa. The young nobleman was recognized by two Irishmen who came by accident to the house where he lived, and Admiral Vernon afterward took him back to Ireland. Reade laid the scene of Lord Altham’s servitude In northern Delaware, but It Is pretty well established that this was an error.