Charles Ball and American Slavery
- ISBN-10
- 0811482812
- ISBN-13
- 9780811482813
- Category
- Slavery
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Heinemann/Raintree
- Author
- Charles Ball
Description
Provides a first person account of the author's experiences both as a slave on tobacco and cotton plantations and as a runaway with intermittent periods of freedom during the late 1700's and early 1800's.
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