When he was three years old, his father was sold to a slaveholder in Georgia and he and his mother fled to Washington, D.C. and later to Connecticut, where Bruce enrolled in an integrated school and received his first formal education.
His father was sold to a slaveholder in Georgia and he. His father was sold to his mother fled to Washington, D.C. and later to Connecticut. He was three years old. Bruce enrolled in an integrated school. Bruce received his first formal education.