found:African American National Biography, accessed March 05, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Grandy, Moses; slave, antislavery activist, writer; born 1786 in Camden, North Carolina, United States; freighted canal boats; purchased his freedom from Sawyer and settled in Providence, Rhode Island, and then Boston; his Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America, was published in London, died in 1843)