An edition of Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution' (1855)

Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'

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An edition of Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution' (1855)

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Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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English

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Plantation life

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Cover of: Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
2000, Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in English - Electronic ed.
Cover of: Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
1855, Published for the Author
Microform in English - 2d ed., enl.

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Table of Contents

The blood of the slave
Slaves on the auction-block
Slaves on the plantation: Colored drivers ; Customs of the slaves, when one of their number dies ; House slaves ; Deception of the slaveholder ; Food and clothing ; The hours for work ; How the slaves contrive to get food ; Flogging ; Overseers ; My own history ; Sabbath and religious meetings ; My parents ; The sufferings of Christ
"Where is thy brother!" / by Mrs. E.L. Follen.

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Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

Text scanned (OCR) by David Faflik. Images scanned by Natalia Smith. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith.

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Transcribed from: Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution' / by Peter Randolph, an emancipated slave. Boston : published for the author, 1855. 35 p.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

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Sketches of slave life, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution', North American slave narratives.

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OL53121655M
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48209385

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