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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~1 hours (70K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Bela Marsh, 1848.

Credits

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

Nov 18, 2022

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

A rare first-person account of slavery and escape, this 1848 narrative speaks with urgency, pain, and determination. Its author used his own life story to expose the brutality of slavery and support the abolitionist cause.

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