Twenty-eight years a slave, or, The story of my life in three continents
By: Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), b. 1836?
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; Freed persons; African American clergy; Religion; Education; African American missionaries; Missions; Baptists; Slavery; History; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: Story of my life in three continents; Africa for Christ.; 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.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills and Sarah Reuning. Images scanned by Fiona Mills, Sarah Reuning, and Chris Hill. Text encoded by Chris Hill and Natalia Smith.

Text in both HTML and SGML formats.

Transcribed from: Twenty-eight years a slave : or, The story of my life in three continents / by Thomas L. Johnson, twenty-eight years a slave in Virginia, afterwards, at forty years of age, a student in Spurgeon's College, missionary in Africa, evangelist in England. [7th ed.]. Bournemouth : W. Mate & Sons, Ltd., 1909. xvi, 266 [1] p. : ill., ports. "Preface to the seventh edition:" p. iii. 1st ed. published with title: Africa for Christ: twenty-eight years a slave. "Booklets and leaflets by Thomas L. Johnson": p. [267].

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; Panorama for SGML files.