Background
Saunders, Prince was born in 1775 in Thetford, Vermont, United States. Son of Cuff and Phyllis Saunders.
reformer attorney general of Haiti
Saunders, Prince was born in 1775 in Thetford, Vermont, United States. Son of Cuff and Phyllis Saunders.
Attended Moor’s Charity School at Dartmouth College, 1807-1808.
Teacher in school for Negroes, Colchester, Connecticut, then in school for Negro children, Boston, 1809. Founded Belles Lettres Society in Boston. Sent from Boston to England as delegate of Masonic Lodge of Africans, circa 1813.
Sent with other teachers to Haiti to organize a school system on the English Lancastrian Plan and to aid in the changing of the religion of Haiti from Catholic to Protestant, circa 1814. Under the direction of Wilberforce he introduced vaccination into Haiti, 1816. Sent back to England as messenger or envoy of Emperor Christophe of Haiti.
Published Haytian Papers (a translation of laws of Haiti and the Code Henri with his own comments), England, 1816, American edit. published by Bingham & Company, Boston, 1818. Went back to Haiti, 1820. Became attorney general Haiti by 1839.