This is a memoir written by a runaway slave in America during the 19th century, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. From the ppreface: "THE Author, thinking an account of his life and experience would be of service to persons into whose hands it might fall, has, by the advice of some of his friends, come to the conclusion to narrate, as correctly as possible, things that he encountered and that came under his notice during a period of some...
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