Fifty Years in Chains-Life of an American Slave
Autor: | Charles Ball |
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EAN: | 9788026883265 |
eBook Format: | ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 10.02.2018 |
Untertitel: | Fascinating True Story of a Fugitive Slave Who Lived in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, Served Under Various Masters, and Was One Year in the Navy During the War of 1812 |
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Schlagworte: | Dreams From My Father James Baldwin Lincoln Long Walk to Freedom Malcolm X Martin Luther King Obama Oprah Ralph Ellison The New Jim Crow |
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'Fifty Years in Chains' is an autobiography of a fugitive slave,Charles Ball, where he describes his life as a slave under various masters and his service in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore Joshua Barney in the War of 1812.
Charles Ball (1780 - unknown) was an enslaved African-American from Maryland who worked as a cook and sailor.According to his Autobiography his grandfather was a man from a noble African family who was enslaved and brought to Calvert County, Maryland around 1730.