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Slavery in the United States : a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a Black man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a slave ... containing an account of the manners and usages of the planters and slaveholders of the South, a description of the condition and treatment of the slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.

Author/creator Ball, Charles, 1781?-
Other author/creatorFisher.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLewistown, Pa. : J.W. Shugert, 1836.
Description400 pages
Subject(s)
General notePrepared by --- Fisher from the verbal narrative of Ball. Cf. Introd. to New York ed. of 1837.
General noteA later edition (New York, 1859) published under title: Fifty years in chains.
General noteReproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
General noteGoldsmiths'-Kress no. 29690.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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