The experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years / written by a friend, as related to him by Brother Jones ; by Thomas H. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Thomas H.

Contributor:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.

Standardized Title:

Experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--North Carolina.

Slavery.

Jones, Thomas H.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 p.)

Edition:

DocSouth Books ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850's. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section in which Jones describes his experiences as a minister in North Carolina, while still enslaved, and then on the abolitionist lecture circuit in Massachusetts and the Maritime Provinces of Canada after he stowed away on a ship bound for New York in 1849.

Contents:

""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""TO THE FRIENDS OF SUFFERING HUMANITY:""; "" NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE.""; ""CHAPTER SECOND.""; ""PART SECOND.""; "" TESTIMONIALS.""

Notes:

Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth) Project.

Reprint of the 3rd ed.: New Bedford, E. Anthony, 1885.

Originally published as: Experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years, [c.1849-1855].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9798890843197

9798890843203

9781469602851

1469602857

9780807869543

0807869546

OCLC:

763157094