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The martyrs, and the fugitive, or, A narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and death of an African family, and the slavery and escape of their son Cover Image E-book

The martyrs, and the fugitive, or, A narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and death of an African family, and the slavery and escape of their son [electronic resource] / by S.H. Platt.

Martyrs, and the fugitive (portion title)
Narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and death of an African family (portion title)
Platt, S. H. (Smith H.) (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary:

A semi-fictionalized account of an African family sold by their countrymen into slavery, with descriptions of the slave trade, slave ships, slave markets, the general system of slavery in the United States, and, finally, the successful escape of one of the children.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcried by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Melissa Graham and 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 (viewed Aug. 18, 2003).
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Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
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Transcribed from: The martyrs, and the fugitive, or, A narrative of the captivity, sufferings, and death of an African family, and the slavery and escape of their son / by Rev. S.H. Platt. New York : Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1859. 95 p. "Published for the benefit of the fugitive."
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation supported the electronic publication of this title.
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Subject:
Fugitive slaves > United States > Fiction.
Slave trade > Africa > Fiction.
Slavery > Africa > Fiction.
Slavery > Southern States > Fiction.
Genre:
Slave narratives.