<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Maryland, 39.00039, -76.74997</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Ball, Charles, Negro Slave</dc:creator><dc:date>1837</dc:date><dc:publisher>New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1837</dc:publisher><dc:publisher>B B1871 1837</dc:publisher><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>African Americans--Southern states--Biography</dc:subject><dc:subject>Fugitive slaves--Southern States--Biography</dc:subject><dc:subject>Kidnapping--Maryland--History--19th century</dc:subject><dc:subject>Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaves--Southern States--Biography</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century</dc:subject><dc:subject>Slaves' writings, American--Southern States</dc:subject><dc:title>Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave Under Various Masters, and was One Year in the Navy with Commodore Barney, During the Late War</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>