Fifty Years in Chains, or The Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

Fifty Years in Chains, or The Life of an American Slave

Charles Ball

184 pages • first pub 1859 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir emotional sad medium-paced
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Charles Ball (c.1780-?) was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account of his life as a fugitive slave The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball (1837). He also served in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the US Navy under t...

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