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Aunt Sally: Or, The Cross The Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan

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Memoir of Aunt Sally Williams and her life as a slave in North Carolina and Alabama. This is the 1863 edition of the volume, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, by The American Reform Tract and Book Society. Various editions of the volume exist, including, according to Blockson, an early 1858 edition. The present copy is hardbound, 216 pp., with some engravings, measures approximately 6"" by 4"", and is in relatively good condition, the pages clean, unmarked, and without any damage. The book is inscribed ""F. B. Mabee,"" who was Frank B. Mabee (1857-1916 or 1947), of Richland County, Ohio.
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American Reform Tract and Book Society
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The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
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North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Keywords

  1. African American Women
  2. African Americans
  3. Biography
  4. Freedmen
  5. History
  6. Plantation Life
  7. Slave Narratives
  8. Slaver
  9. Slavery
  10. Slaves
  11. Southern States
  12. United States
  13. Williams, Isaac, Rev
  14. Women

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