A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley
Subtitle: a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North : who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old : the emancipation of his mother and her three children : how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one
By: Offley, G.W. (Greensbury Washington), b. 1808
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: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American clergy; Slaves; Freed persons; Religious life; History; Slavery; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: Narrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley.; North American slave narratives.
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Transcribed from: A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley : a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North : who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old : the emancipation of his mother and her three children : how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one. Hartford, Conn : [s.n.], 1859. 24 p. Caption title: Narrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley.

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