Two American Slavery Documents
Author: last_name: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
first_name: James
last_name: Mars
Language: English
Year: 1869

This recording contains two original documents.  1)  Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869).  James Mars was born in Connecticut in 1790 and spent the better part of his youth a slave working for various owners—once fleeing to the woods with his family to avoid being relocated to the South. At age twenty-five he became a free man and moved to Hartford, Connecticut,  where he became a leader in the local African American community.  His memoir is one of the