Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave, Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! Or the Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed

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Excerpt from Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave, Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! Or the Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed: Containing Scriptural Views of the Origin of the Black and of the White Man, Also, a Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the United StatesSlaveholders' laws are positively opposed to the slave's learning anything more than to handle the axe, plough and hoe. Often have I been whipped for trying to learn my book or read my bible, still I was permitted to visit my mother' s cabin, and attend preaching meetings sometimes, with a written passport.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.