Biography of a slave
Subtitle: being the experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a preacher of the United Brethren Church, while a slave in the South : together with startling occurrences incidental to slave life
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: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; African American clergy; Clergy; Slaves; Fugitive slaves; Plantation life; History; Social life and customs; Religion; Slavery; Slaves' writings, American; Church of the United Brethren in Christ (1800-1889)
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the North Carolina State University Library.

Covers the first half of Thompson's life as a slave.  He intended to write another volume covering his life as a minister but this was never published.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: Biography of a slave : being the experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a preacher of the United Brethren Church, while a slave in the South : together with startling occurrences incidental to slave life. Dayton, Ohio : United Brethren Pub. House, 1875. 111 p.

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