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Slavery in the United States : a narrative to the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a slave under various masters, and was one year in the Navy with Commandore Barney, during the late war; containing an account of the manners and usages of the planters and slaveholders of the South : a description of the condition and treatment of slaves.

Author/creator Ball, Charles
Other author/creatorFisher, Mr.
Other author/creatorBall, Charles. Fifty years in chains.
Format Book and Print
Edition3d. ed.
Publication InfoPittsburgh : J.T. Shryrock ; [Salem, Ohio] : [I. Trescott & Co.], Western Publishers, 1854.
Description[v]-vi, [9]-446 pages ; 19 cm
Subject(s)
General notePrepared by a Mr. Fisher from the verbal narrative of Ball. cf. Introd. to New York edition of 1837.
General noteA later edition (New York, 1859) pub. under title: Fifty years in chains.
Other titleNarrative to the life and adventures of Charles Ball.

Available Items

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Joyner Rare Collection E444 .B187 1854 ✔ Available Request Material