Slavery in the United States
Subtitle: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man, who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a slave, under various masters, and was one year in the navy with Commodore Barney, during the late war. Containing an account of the manners and usages of the planters and slaveholders of the South--a description of the condition and treatment of the slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country
Contributors: Fisher, of Lewistown, Pa; Taylor, John S., active 1832-1854, publisher; Ludwig, Henry, printer
Series: Cabinet of freedom
Publisher: Published by John S. Taylor, Brick Church Chapel
Published: 1837
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Subjects: Slavery
Other titles: Narrative of Charles Ball.; Narrative of the adventures of Charles Ball.
Notes: Added engraved title page: The cabinet of freedom under the supervision of the Hon. William Jay, Rev. Prof. Bush, of the University of New York, and Gerrit Smith, Esqr. New York. Published by John S. Taylor, 1836.

Running title: Narrative of the adventures of Charles Ball.

Spine title: Narrative of Charles Ball.

Prepared by Mr. Fisher from Ball's verbal narrative. Cf. Introduction.

Later editions have title: Fifty years in chains; or, The life of an American slave.

Copyright 1837 by John S. Taylor.

"Henry Ludwig, printer."--verso of title page.

"Books published and for sale by John S. Taylor, theological and Sunday-school bookseller, Brick Church Chapel, corner of Park-Row and Nassau-Street, opposite the City Hall, New-York."--p. i-viii, last count.