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Book/Printed Material 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

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Title

  • 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

Names

  • Ball, Charles, 1781?-
  • Fisher

Created / Published

  • Pittsburgh, J.T. Shryock, 1853.

Headings

  • -  Ball, Charles,--1781?
  • -  Slavery--Maryland
  • -  Slavery--South Carolina
  • -  Slavery--Georgia

Notes

  • -  Prepared by a Mr. Fisher from the verbal narrative of Ball.
  • -  A later edition (New York, 1859) pub. under title: Fifty years in chains.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

Medium

  • 446 p. 19cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E444 .B183

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 17002411

OCLC Number

  • 1379598

Online Format

  • online text
  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Ball, Charles, 1781?, and Fisher. 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. Pittsburgh, J.T. Shryock, 1853. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/17002411/.

APA citation style:

Ball, C. & Fisher. (1853) 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. Pittsburgh, J.T. Shryock. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/17002411/.

MLA citation style:

Ball, Charles, 1781?, and Fisher. 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. Pittsburgh, J.T. Shryock, 1853. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/17002411/>.