A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery [[electronic resource] /] / by Moses Roper

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812448103321
• Autore: Roper Moses
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, 2011
• ISBN: 979-88-908433-3-3; 1-4696-0291-1; 0-8078-6966-X
• Edizione: [DocSouth ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (52 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.362092
• Soggetti: Slavery - South Carolina
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""PREFACE.""; ""INTRODUCTION.""; ""ESCAPE, &C.""
• Sommario/riassunto: This book can be read as an extended autobiographical meditation on the meaning of race in antebellum America. First published in England, the text documents the life of Moses Roper, beginning with his birth in North Carolina and chronicling his travels through South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Roper was able to obtain employment on a schooner named The Fox, and in 1834 he made his way to freedom aboard the vessel. Once in Boston, he was quickly recruited as a signatory to the constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), but he sailed to England the next year.