Slavery in the United States
Subtitle: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man
By: Charles Ball
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; Slaves; Social conditions; Fugitive slaves; Kidnapping; History; Slavery; Plantation life; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

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.

Text scanned (OCR) by Aletha Andrew and Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Aletha Andrew and Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Carlene Hempel and Natalia Smith.

Text in both HTML and SGML formats.

Transcribed from: Slavery in the United States : 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 South₇ 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. New York : Published by John S. Taylor, 1837. xii, 13-517, vii p.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection