A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North : who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old : the emancipation of his mother and her three children : how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one
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electronic resource - Edition: Electronic ed.
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
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| General Note: | Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives. |
| Original Version Note: | Transcribed from: A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley : a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North : who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old : the emancipation of his mother and her three children : how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one. Hartford, Conn : [s.n.], 1859. 24 p. Caption title: Narrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley. |
| Funding Information Note: | Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. |
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| Genre: | Slave narratives. |
