Horrors of slavery, or, The American tars in Tripoli
Subtitle: containing an account of the loss and capture of the United States frigate Philadelphia : treatment and sufferings of the prisoners : description of the place : manners, customs, &c. of the Tripolitans : public transactions of the United States with that regency, including Gen. Eaton's expedition : interspersed with interesting remarks, anecdotes, and poetry on various subjects
By: written during upwards of nineteen months' imprisonment and vassalage among the Turks by William Ray
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Oliver Lyon, for the author
Published: 1808
Place of publication: Troy [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Personal narratives; History; Slavery; United States. Navy; United States; Philadelphia (Frigate)
Other titles: Horrors of slavery; American tars in Tripoli
Notes: Signatures: A-U⁶ W⁶ X-2A⁶ ( Z3 and 2A6 blank).

"Poetry, published in the Albany register, during the summer of 1807, by William Ray": p. [283]-298.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.  Registration statement, District of New York, mounted on title page verso.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 320

Shaw & Shoemaker 16035

LC copy initialled by Thomas Jefferson at signatures I and T.  Has the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.