Old plantation days
By: Col. W. Mallory
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Black people; Slaves; Social conditions; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; Poetry; African American missionaries; History; African American Participation; Zulu (African people)
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Description: Born a slave in North Carolina in 1826, William Mallory was sold to the LeBlanc family in Virginia as a boy.  He was given to a son-in-law of Mr. LeBlanc's and became the slave of Susten Allen, a White House official.  In 1860, Mallory escaped to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  When the Civil War broke out, he returned to the U.S. and joined the Union Army, eventually rising to the rank of Colonel.  Mallory fought at Bull Run, Vicksburg, New Orleans and Gettysburg.  After the war, Mallory returned to Canada and became a businessman and missionary to Africa.  He was also quite involved in Canadian politics.  The book includes a number of poems by Mallory, articles about him, and his descriptions of his father's capture and enslavement in Africa and his brother's actions in saving a burning church, St. Michael's Cathedral in Charleston, South Carolina.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: Old plantation days / Col. W. Mallory, ex-slave. 3rd ed. [Hamilton, Ontario? : s.n., 1902?] 56 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm. Cover title. Missing pages 41-48 from original.

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