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Thirty years a slave from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter

30 years a slave (other title)

Summary: 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.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 400 kilobytes).
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    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.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; World Wide Web browser.
Source of Description Note:
Title from TEI header.
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

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