African slave and calculating prodigy : bicentenary of the death of Thomas Fuller / John Fauvel and Paulus Gerdes.
Note:
A p. 148: Appendix 1: From The American museum, vol. V (1789), pp. 62-63; a p. 149: Appendix 2: From the Columbian centinel, December 29, 1790, no. 707, p. 123, col. 2, Boston, MA
Abstract:
'Thomas Fuller (1710-1790) was an African, shipped to America as a slave in 1724. He had remarkable powers of calculation, and late in his life was discovered by antislavery campaigners who used him as a demonstration that blacks are not mentally inferior to whites. This paper describes what we know of Fuller, discusses the various uses made of his story since his death, and appeals for further study of the 18th-century African ethnomathematical context.'
Historia mathematica Vol. 17 (1990), p. 141-151