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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966825103321

Autore

Ball Charles <1781?->

Titolo

Fifty years in chains : or, The life of an American slave / / by Charles Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2012

ISBN

9781469607863

1469607867

9781469607856

1469607859

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

305.5

305.5/67

305.5/67/092

305.567092

306.362092

Soggetti

Slavery - Maryland

Slavery - South Carolina

Slavery - Georgia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"DocSouth books edition"

Nota di contenuto

About This Edition; Summary; PREFACE.; FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS;  or, THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN SLAVE.; CHAPTER I.; SEPARATED FROM MY MOTHER.; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III.; CHAPTER IV.; CHAPTER V.; CHAPTER VI.; CHAPTER VII.; CHAPTER VIII.; CHAPTER IX.; CHAPTER X.; CHAPTER XI.; CHAPTER XII.; CHAPTER XIII.; CHAPTER XIV.; CHAPTER XV.; CHAPTER XVI.; CHAPTER XVII.; CHAPTER XVIII.; CHAPTER XIX.; CHAPTER XX.

Sommario/riassunto

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer inhumane conditions. He recounts the qualities of his various masters and the ways in which his fortune



depended on their temperament. As slave narrative scholar William L. Andrews has noted, Ball's oft-repeated narrative directly influenced the manner and matter of later