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Autobiography of a fugitive negro : his anti-slavery labours in the United States, Canada & England

"Samuel Ringgold Ward...was born to slave parents in Maryland in 1817. He and his family fled to freedom in the north...Ward became affliated with various antislavery societies...while actively aiding fugitive slaves...In 1853 he went to Great Britain to lecture...In London English abolitionists urged him to write 'The autobiography of a fugitive Negro'.".

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adult
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long · 412 pages

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