Fifty Years in Chains

Or, the Life of an American Slave
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4696-0784-9
Verlag: UNC at Chapel Hill Library

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

<em>Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave</em> (1859) was an abridged and unauthorised 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 fugitive slave narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ball, Charles

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Charles Ball </strong>was born on a tobacco plantation in Calvert County, Maryland, USA in 1781 and escaped from slavery in 1809.