Boston King was one of more than 3,000 blacks fighting for the Crown. After the British loss, a rumor spread among them that they would be returned to slavery. They saw old masters come and seize their former slave's right on the streets of New York. Slave catchers dragged people out of bed and carried them away. Later, in his Memoirs, Boston King wrote that the blacks in New York City were filled with "inexpressible anguish and terror..For some days, we lost our appetite for food, and sleep departed from our eyes." For more about Boston King link to "Life Stories: Profiles of Black New Yorkers During Slavery and Emancipation" Close