Orman Remington was enslaved in Jamestown, Rhode Island, and in 1781, he purchased his own freedom from his enslaver. He didn’t stop there — two years later he bought his wife and three children from a neighboring farm. He eventually became the first Black person to own land in Jamestown and died there in 1816. His grandson Henry O. Remington carried his legacy forward, becoming a prominent abolitionist and close associate of Frederick Douglass in New Bedford, where he later erected memorials honoring Orman and the family he had freed.