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A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley, a colored man, local preacher and missionary, : who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North; who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old; the emancipation of his mother and her three children; how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one
1. A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley, a colored man, local preacher and missionary, : who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North; who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old; the emancipation of his mother and her three children; how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one

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    African American Clergy; African Americans; Antislavery Literature; Autobiographies; Biography; Connecticut; Freedmen; Hartford; Maryland; Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), 1808 1896; Printed Wrappers (Binding); Slave Narratives; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Spirituals (Songs); Wrappers (Binding)
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The experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.
2. The experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.

Jones, Thomas H

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    Autobiographies; Biography; Engravings; Fugitive Slaves; Jones, Thomas H; North Carolina; Pictorial Bindings (Binding); Plantation Life; Printed Wrappers (Binding); Slave Narratives; Slaver; Slavery; Slaves; Slaves' Writings, American; Social Conditions; Social Life And Customs; United States; Wrappers (Binding)
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