Thirty years a slave [electronic resource] : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter / Hughes, Louis, b. 1832.
The Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents the full-text of "Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter," a narrative written by American slave Louis Hughes (1832-?) that was originally published in 1897. The online text is from "First-Person Narratives of the American South," a part of the "Documenting the American South (DAS)" collection of the Academic Affairs Library.
Electronic resources
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Text scanned (OCR) by Claire LaForce. Text encoded by Teresa Church and Natalia Smith.""The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or the Southern Experience in 19th-century America."
- Original Version Note:
- Transcribed from: Thirty years a slave : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter / autobiography of Louis Hughes. Milwaukee : South Side Printing Co., 1897. 210 p. ; 22 cm.
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- Mode of access: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; World Wide Web browser.
- Source of Description Note:
- Title from TEI header.
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- Subject:
- Hughes, Louis, 1832-
Enslaved persons' writings, American
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions
Freedmen > United States > Biography.
Freedmen > United States > Social conditions.
Plantation life > United States.
Slavery > United States.
