The story of Archer Alexander
Subtitle: from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863
By: Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887
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; Fugitive slaves; Freed persons; Slavery; History; Monuments; Western Sanitary Commission
Other titles: North American slave narratives.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

Archer Alexander was the model for the slave depicted in "Freedom's Memorial," a bronze statue representing President Lincoln in the act of emancipating a slave.

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 story of Archer Alexander : from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863 / by William G. Eliot, a member of the Western Sanitary Commission, St. Louis, MO. Boston : Cupples, Upham and Company ; Old Corner Bookstore, 1885. 123 p. : ill.

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

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