Research Catalog

Title

Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave.

Author

Ball, Charles, 1781?-

Publication

• New-York : H. Dayton, 29 Ann Street, 1858.
• ©1858.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dayton, Hiram
• Reed, John J.

Description

430 pages; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Fifty years in chains
• Life of an American slave

Subjects

• Enslaved persons > Southern States > Biography
• Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions
• Fugitive slaves > Southern States > Biography
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Slavery > Maryland
• Slavery > South Carolina
• Plantation life > Southern States
• Slave narratives
• African Americans > Southern States > Biography
• Ball, Charles, 1781?-
• Slavery > Georgia
• African American sailors > Biography
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• United States > History > War of 1812 > Participation, African American
• Black author

Genre/Form

• Slave narratives.
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Earlier editions have title: Slavery in the United States: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball, a black man.
• Prepared by Mr. Fisher from Ball's verbal narrative. Cf. Introduction to the New York edition of 1837.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858, by H. Dayton, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "J.J. Reed, printer and stereotyper, 16 Spruce-St., N.Y."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; With ink stamp on verso of prelim. free endleaf: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-B (Ball, C. Fifty years in chains)

OCLC

• 7620011
• NYPG81-B4930

Author

Ball, Charles, 1781?- author.

Title

Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave.

Publisher

New-York : H. Dayton, 29 Ann Street, 1858.

Copyright Date

©1858.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-B (accession no. B526367) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." ; With ink stamp on verso of prelim. free endleaf: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Dayton, Hiram, publisher.

Reed, John J., printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.92-B (Ball, C. Fifty years in chains)