- Collection:
- North American Slave Narratives
- Title:
- Narrative of Dimmock Charlton : a British subject, taken from the brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," enslaved while a prisoner of war, and retained forty-five years in bondage
- Creator:
- Cox, Mary L.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Cox, Susan H.
- Publisher:
- [Philadelphia : the editors, 1859]
- Date of Original:
- 1859
- Subject:
- Blacks--Africa--Biography.
Slaves--Georgia--Biography.
Hornet (Sloop)
Peacock (Brig) - People:
- Charlton, Dimmock, b. ca. 1801
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- monographs
biographies (literary works) - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Title from electronic title page.
Introductory chapter (p. [1]-3) signed: Mary L. & Susan H. Cox. The remainder of the pamphlet consists of extracts from the New York times and the Anti-slavery reportrer relating to the case. Charlton, earlier known as Tallen and John Bull, was captured in Africa, released from a slave-ship by a British war vessel, and sent to Georgia after the capture of the "Peacock," where he was held as a slave until about 1857.
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.
Text scanned (OCR) by Lee Ann Morawski. Text encoded by Chris Hill and Natalia Smith.
Text in both HTML and SGML formats.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
Transcribed from: Narrative of Dimmock Charlton : a British subject, taken from the brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," enslaved while a prisoner of war, and retained forty-five years in bondage. [Philadelphia : the editors, 1859] 15 p. ; 18 cm.
This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the Harvard University Library. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/cox/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 15 p. ; 18 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Harvard University. Library
- Rights:
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