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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 [electronic resource] / by S.H. Platt.

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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Record details

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

Content descriptions

General Note:
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).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:
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.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject:
Fugitive slaves > United States > Fiction.
Slave trade > Africa > Fiction.
Slavery > Africa > Fiction.
Slavery > Southern States > Fiction.
Genre:
Slave narratives.

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