Category:Gilbert Hunt
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African American blacksmith
Hero of the Richmond Theatre fire
Gilbert Hunt, a former slave who, having purchased his freedom, was working as a blacksmith at a shop near the theatre. Along with Dr. James McCaw, a physician who was attending the theatre that evening, Hunt was credited with saving close to a dozen people. McCaw would lower them from the burning second story, and Hunt would catch them. Hunt also saved McCaw, who jumped just as a burning section of wall was about to fall on him.
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Benjamin Tanner - The Burning of the Theatre in Richmond, Virginia, 1811.jpg 1,200 × 887; 122 KB
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Gilbert Hunt, blacksmith.jpg 313 × 440; 42 KB
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Photograph of Gilbert Hunt.jpg 2,057 × 2,560; 990 KB
