Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
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electronic resource - Edition: Electronic ed.
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
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| General Note: | Text scanned (OCR) by David Faflik. Images scanned by Natalia Smith. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith. 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. Title from electronic title page. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Original Version Note: | 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 Information Note: | Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. |
| System Details Note: | System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files. |
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| Genre: | Slave narratives. |
