Autobiography of a fugitive Negro.
Series: The American Negro, his history and literature
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
Description: "Samuel Ringgold Ward...was born to slave parents in Maryland in 1817. He and his family fled to freedom in the north...Ward became affliated with various antislavery societies...while actively aiding fugitive slaves...In 1853 he went to Great Britain to lecture...In London English abolitionists urged him to write 'The autobiography of a fugitive Negro'.".
Notes: Reprint of the 1855 ed.