Autobiography: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Antislavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England

Samuel Ward

Autobiography: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Antislavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England

1855

Autobiography

Documenting the American South features Black abolitionist and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward's autobiography published in 1855. Ward's provides an account of his antislavery political activism across the United States, Canada, and Britain. Other themes include Ward's education and upbringing in New England, his work as a Congregationalist minister of a White congregation, and Ward's transnational activist in Canada and Britain.

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Documenting the American South

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