BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY - AFRICAN DESCENDANT " JAMES MYE " WAS A DESCENDAT OF AFRICANS WHO ESCAPED SLERRY IN THE BRITISH COLONIES AND FOUND REFUGE IN NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES - GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK HEROES "

                         BLACK  SOCIAL  HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

James Mye (ca. 1823 – ca. 1890) was a descendant of Africans who escaped slavery in the British colonies and found refuge in Native American communities. He was of Mashpee and African descent. Mye was an indentured servant to the Hall brothers beginning at age 11. However, in a 1804 legal case that became an important precedent in subsequent cases concerning child labor, the court determined that his servitude was akin to slavery and not legal. This daguerrotype of Mye was taken circa 1840 in Cape Cod.