(SLAVE NARRATIVES) BROWN JOHN Slave Life in Georgia a Narrat

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(SLAVE NARRATIVES.) BROWN, JOHN. Slave Life in Georgia: a Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, now in England. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 250 pages, with inserted slip advertising other abolitionist works at the end. Small 8vo, original patterned flexible green cloth, title in gilt on the upper cover; binding slightly sloped. London: 1855

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second edition, the same year as the first. John Brown (1810-1876) was born into slavery in Virginia. Originally given the single name 'Fed,' Brown spent his earliest years on a tobacco farm in North Carolina, until he was separated from his mother at the age of ten and sent to work on a farm in Georgia. After at least one failed attempt, Fed escaped but was caught in New Orleans and sold again to a Mississippi planter. From there he escaped yet again and made his way north to Michigan and then to Canada, and finally to England, where he settled. 'One of the few authentic slave narratives"--Dictionary of American Slavery.