Recollections of slavery
By: by a runaway slave
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slaves; Social conditions; Women slaves; Slavery; Fugitive slaves; Plantation life; Antislavery movements
Other titles: Emancipator (New York, N.Y. : 1835); North American slave narratives.
Description: Born a slave near Charleston, South Carolina, the narrator tells a story of the treatment of slaves on a plantation. He was owned by a strict mistress and hired out to other masters. He was forced to work from a young age and his tale is one of relentless cruelty towards slaves, both men and women, adults and children. He tells of seeing a runaway slave shot, but nevertheless tries to escape several times. Eventually he succeeds, through the help of a ship steward whose name he doesn't know and who refuses to take any money, and makes his way north. The writer concludes with evidence that the narrative is true and he describes the transformation of the man upon becoming free, as testimony that no man should own another and that this man's story should be told to others.
Notes: Title from electronic caption title (viewed Mar. 8, 2004).

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 the microform of: Recollections of slavery / by a runaway slave. 5 p. Originially published in The Emancipator. August 23, September 13, September 20, October 11, October 18, 1838. At head of section titles: "From the Advocate of Freedom."

Funding from the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.

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