Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave

by Henry Watson

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NARRATIVE OF HENRY WATSON, A FUGITIVE SLAVE.

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Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_of_Henry_Watson,_A_Fugitive_Slave

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Original publisher

United States: Bela Marsh, 1848.

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hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)

Release date

2022-11-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69372

Subjects

Slavery -- Mississippi Enslaved persons -- Mississippi -- Social conditions

About the author

Henry Watson

Best known for a powerful first-person slave narrative, this 19th-century writer told his own story with urgency and moral force. His brief surviving record still gives a vivid, personal view of enslavement in Virginia and Mississippi and the fight to reach freedom.

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