Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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High quality reprint of Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada, and England. by Samuel Ringgold Ward.




Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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Samuel Ringgold Ward ... was born to slave parents in Maryland in 1817. He and his family fled to freedom in the north ... Ward became affliated with various antislavery societies ... while actively aiding fugitive slaves ... In 1853 he went to Great Britain to lecture ... In London English abolitionists urged him to write 'The autobiography of a fugitive Negro'.




The Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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Excerpt from Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, and England The reader will not find the dry details of a journal, nor any of my speeches or sermons. I preferred to weave into the Work the themes upon which I have Spoken, rather than the speeches themselves. The Work is not a literary one, for it is not written by a. Literary man; it is no more than its humble title indi cates - the Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro. In what sense I am a fugitive, will appear on perusal of my personal and family history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Slave Life in Georgia


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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro


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From Fugitive Slave to Free Man


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William Wells Brown spent the first twenty years of his life mainly in St. Louis and the surrounding areas working as a house servant, field hand, a tavern keeper's assistant, a printer's helper, an assistant in a medical office, and a handyman for James Walker, a Missouri slave trader. During his time with Walker, Brown made three trips up and down the Mississippi River. These trips allowed him to encounter slavery from every perspective and provided experiences he would draw on throughout his writing career.




The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave


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"Thompson, born on a Maryland plantation in 1812, escaped to Pennsylvania but fell into a harried itinerant pattern. The passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act put him in danger even in free states ; after six months of work arranged by a Quaker, he and his companion were forced to leave by the appearance of slave hunters. Thompson started to make a life in Philadelphia, marrying and pursuing an education, only to conclude once more that he must run when several other fugitives in his neighborhood were arrested. This time he went to sea, joining a whaling vessel out of New Bedford, which comprises most of the final chapters..."--Dealer's description.