Buried alive (behind prison walls) for a quarter of a century [electronic resource] : life of William Walker / by Thomas S. Gaines.
William Walker was born in Virginia around 1819 or 1820, where he lived until 1841 when he was sold and taken to Louisiana. He describes the cruel treatment that he and other slaves received from their masters. After his master in New Orleans died, he was sold to a farmer in Missouri where he escaped and ran to Michigan. A continuing theme is his desire to see his mother again. In 1866, he was accused of killing his neighbor who had threatened to kill him for being with his wife. Walker was sentenced to life in prison. The rest of the narrative tells of the horrible conditions in Jackson Prison.
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- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries, 2003.
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- General Note:
- Library of Congress provided the text for the electronic publication of this title.Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Elizabeth S. Wright. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and Elizabeth S. Wright.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 Apr. 21, 2004).
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- Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and images (JPEG).
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- Transcribed from: Buried alive (behind prison walls) for a quarter of a century : life of William Walker / by Thomas S. Gaines. Saginaw, E.S., Mich. : Friedman & Hynan, Publishers, 1892. 208 p. Cover title: Buried alive, for a quarter of a century, life in Jackson Prison.
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- Funding from the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
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