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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.

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Transcribed from: Twenty-eight years a slave : or, The story of my life in three continents / by Thomas L. Johnson, twenty-eight years a slave in Virginia, afterwards, at forty years of age, a student in Spurgeon's College, missionary in Africa, evangelist in England. [7th ed.]. Bournemouth : W. Mate & Sons, Ltd., 1909. xvi, 266 [1] p. : ill., ports. "Preface to the seventh edition:" p. iii. 1st ed. published with title: Africa for Christ: twenty-eight years a slave. "Booklets and leaflets by Thomas L. Johnson": p. [267].

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