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Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England

Title
Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England / edited by L.A. Chamerovzow, secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
Author
Brown, John, active 1854
Publication
London : May be had on application to the editor, at no. 27, New Broad Street, and of all booksellers, 1855.

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Additional Authors
  • Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
  • Watts, William Mavor
  • Johnston, J. (Engraver)
  • Dudman, J. (Photographer)
  • British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
Description
[2], ii, 250 pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait; 17 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • "W.M. Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar."--printer statement, verso of title page.
  • "Declaration. (The following declaration of John Brown, made before a Notary Public of the City of London, and setting forth facts relating to the seizure, enslavement, and torturing of John Glasgow, a free-born British subject, is inserted here, in order that any person disposed, to make inquiries respecting John Glasgow's English wife and family, may have legal evidence on which to proceed.)"--p. 228-240.
  • Frontispiece portrait signed: J. Johnston. From a colodion [sic] by J. Dudman.
Indexed In (note)
  • Kaplan, L. Bibliography of American autobiographies
  • Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
Preface -- My childhhod and first troubles -- My new master, and how he came to sell me -- I am sold again ; How I fared -- The story of John Glasgow -- Dr. Hamilton's experiments upon me ; My master dies, and I again change hands -- John Morgan -- Something about some of my fellow-slaves -- I make an attempt to escape ; How it ended -- More tribulation -- I make another attempt to escape -- Fortune and misfortune -- The slave-pen in New Orleans -- I am once more sold -- How I got away from Jepsey James' -- How I came to be John Brown -- I am advertised as a run-away -- I am booked to Canada, express, by the Underground Railroad -- The cultivation of cotton, tobacco, and rice -- A few words on the treatment of slaves -- My reflections -- The Underground Railroad (from the Anti-Slavery Reporter, April 1853) -- Declaration -- John Brown's tesimonials.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-B (Brown, J. Slave life in Georgia)
LCCN
13018452
OCLC
  • 6374405
  • NYPGR6374405-B
Author
Brown, John, active 1854, author.
Title
Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England / edited by L.A. Chamerovzow, secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
Publisher
London : May be had on application to the editor, at no. 27, New Broad Street, and of all booksellers, 1855.
Edition
Second edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Kaplan, L. Bibliography of American autobiographies, 720
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 1696
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-B (accession no. B499075) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Local Note
Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-16513 or the electronic resource.
Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-B has printed sheet tipped in at end, with advertisements for The Anti-Slavery Reporter, and tracts by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
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Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis, editor.
British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society.
Watts, William Mavor, printer.
Johnston, J. (Engraver), engraver.
Dudman, J. (Photographer), photographer.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.92-B (Brown, J. Slave life in Georgia)
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