Down the road, on the right hand, on Brister's Hill, lived Brister Freeman, "a handy Negro," slave of Squire Cummings once.... Not... long since I read his epitaph in the old Lincoln burying-ground, a little on one side, near the unmarked graves of some British grenadiers who fell in the retreat from Concord,--where he is styled "Sippio Brister,"MScipio Africanus he had some title to be called,--"a man of color," as if he were discolored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »