Known today as Black Alice,  Old Alice or Alice of Dunk’s Ferry, she has been remembered for her long life, including forty years operating a ferry crossing on the Delaware River at Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and for her recollections of William Penn and the early history of Pennsylvania.  Much of her short biography– composed and published by Quaker reformer Samuel Coates shortly after her death in 1802–was in fact devoted to her memories of the construction of Philadelphia’s Christ Church and not to her life.  Unexplored in the few documents concerning her existence have been her family, her allies, her owners and oppressors, her hopes and  plans, successes and failures, gains and  losses during a long life (ca. 1694-1802) in bondage.  As imperfect as the surviving record of her life is, it is still possible create a fuller biography of a remarkable woman  and the fraught times in which she lived.