Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones
Subtitle: who was for forty years a slave
By: Thomas Jones. Also the surprising adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat, a fugitive negro from South Carolina
Contributors: Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865; 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; Social conditions; Slaves; Social life and customs; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; History; Plantation life; Slaves' writings, American; Fiction
Other titles: Surprising adventures of Wild Tom.; Wild Tom.; Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom Jones.; North American slave narratives.
Notes: This text contains both the narrative of escaped slave Tom Jones as well as an excerpt from the novel "The Slave, or, the Memoirs of Archy Moore" by Richard Hildreth, which is entitled "The Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina."

Pages 41-52 are missing in the original copy.

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Transcribed from: Experience and personal narrative of Uncle Tom Jones : who was for forty years a slave. Also the surprising adventures of Wild Tom, of the island retreat, a fugitive negro from South Carolina. Boston : H. B. Skinner, [185-?]. 54 p. ; 24 cm. Caption title: Surprising adventures of Uncle Tom Jones.

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