Peter Fleet
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| Died |
1758
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| Occupation Text |
enslaved engraver and printer
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Peter Fleet (d. 1758?) was the earliest known African-American woodcut artist, typesetter, and newspaperman. Fleet was enslaved by Massachusetts printer Thomas Fleet. According to Isaiah Thomas, who wrote the first history of early American printers, Peter Fleet was "an ingenious man, and cut, on wooden blocks, all the pictures which decorated the ballads and small books of his master." Fleet also typeset articles for Thomas Fleet's long-running newspaper, The Boston Evening-Post, which, according to recent scholarship, published an unusually high number of articles about slave revolts and stories of special concern to Black people that no other provincial newspaper bothered to publish. Also enslaved by Thomas Fleet were two younger men, Pompey Fleet and Ceasar Fleet, sometimes identified as Peter Fleet's sons, both of whom were also printers in Thomas Fleet's shop.
