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Medium biographies (literary works) Collection Name North American Slave Narratives

1. The life of Rev. Robert Anderson : born the 22d day of February, in the year of Our Lord 1819, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839

Creator:: Anderson, Robert, b. 1819
Date of Original:: 1892
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

2. A sketch of the life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom)

Creator:: North Carolina State University. Library
Date of Original:: 1865
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

3. Running a thousand miles for freedom, or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery

Creator:: Craft, William
Date of Original:: 1860
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

4. 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.
Date of Original:: 1859
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: Harvard University. Library

5. Life of William Grimes : the runaway slave : brought down to the present time / written by himself

Creator:: Grimes, William, 1784-
Date of Original:: 1855
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

6. Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England / edited by L.A. Chamerovzow.

Creator:: Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
Date of Original:: 1855
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

7. Life of William Grimes : the runaway slave / written by himself.

Creator:: Grimes, William, b. 1784
Date of Original:: 1825
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

8. The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves : original and life-like, as they appeared in their old plantation and city slave life : together with pen-pictures of the peculiar institution, with sights and insights into their new relations as freedmen, freemen, and citizens / by Mrs. Octavia V. Rogers Albert ; with an introduction by Rev. Bishop Willard F. Mallalieu, D.D.

Creator:: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-1889?
Date of Original:: 1800/1899
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library