(NARRATIVES) ANDERSON ROBERT From Slavery to Affluence Memoi

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(NARRATIVES.) ANDERSON, ROBERT. From Slavery to Affluence. Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave. 59 pages. Small 8vo, original printed tan wrappers with yapped edges; some light wear to same, with previous owner's name on the front cover; early but unrelated newspaper clipping laid in at rear. Hemingford, Nebraska: The Hemingford Ledger, 1927

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first edition of a late but very informative narrative, written when its author was 80 years old. Anderson typically had a reasonably good relationship with his master when he was a child, but things changed as he became an adult. He states that his owner did not believe in whipping, but if he was away, the overseer or someone else would carry out the punishment. He recounts a horrific whipping he received at 14, 'which should have killed me but I guess I was too tough or too stubborn to die."