A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England, who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost thirteen years : containing an account of the many hardships he underwent from the time he left his master's house, in the year 1747, to the time of his return to Boston : how he was cast away in the capes of Florida : the horrid cruelty and inhuman barbarity of the Indians in murdering the whole ship's crew : the manner of his being carry'd by them into captivity : also, an account of his being confined four years and seven months in a close dungeon, and the remarkable manner in which he met with his good old master in London : who returned to New-England, a passenger, in the same ship
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- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.
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| General Note: | Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the Library of Congress. 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. |
| Original Version Note: | Transcribed from photocopy of: A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man : servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England, who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost thirteen years : containing an account of the many hardships he underwent from the time he left his master's house, in the year 1747, to the time of his return to Boston : how he was cast away in the capes of Florida : the horrid cruelty and inhuman barbarity of the Indians in murdering the whole ship's crew : the manner of his being carry'd by them into captivity : also, an account of his being confined four years and seven months in a close dungeon, and the remarkable manner in which he met with his good old master in London : who returned to New-England, a passenger, in the same ship. Boston : printed and sold by Green & Russell, in Queen-Street, 1760. 14 p. ; 18 cm. |
| Funding Information Note: | Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. |
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