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(Created claim: title page transcription (P15): [1] A NARRATIVE | OF THE | LIFE AND LABORS | OF THE | REV. G.W. OFFLEY, | A COLORED MAN, | AND LOCAL PREACHER, | Who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty- | four 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;) |
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[1] A NARRATIVE | OF THE | LIFE AND LABORS | OF THE | REV. G.W. OFFLEY, | A COLORED MAN, | AND LOCAL PREACHER, | Who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty- | four 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 | | |||||||||||||||
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[2] 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. | An interesting story of a slave woman, Jane Brown-- | her dream fulfilled--the separation of her husband and | two children. | The escape of D. Green, a slave woman and her infant, | | |||||||||||||||
| Property / title page transcription: [2] 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. | An interesting story of a slave woman, Jane Brown-- | her dream fulfilled--the separation of her husband and | two children. | The escape of D. Green, a slave woman and her infant, | / rank | |||||||||||||||
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in one night, by the aid of a white woman and three | colored men. | Proposition of a slaveholder to G.W. Offley to marry his | slave girl. | The slave girl runaway and got married on Saturday night | and came home Sunday morning. | HARTFORD, CONN. | 1860. | |||||||||||||||
| Property / title page transcription: in one night, by the aid of a white woman and three | colored men. | Proposition of a slaveholder to G.W. Offley to marry his | slave girl. | The slave girl runaway and got married on Saturday night | and came home Sunday morning. | HARTFORD, CONN. | 1860. / rank | |||||||||||||||
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note: NAMES OF GENTLEMEN WHO SPEAK IN HIGH TERMS OF HIS MORAL WORTH | |||||||||||||||
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note: Ware, Mass, Feb. 1852: Rev. W. Ward; Hartford, Conn, 1854: Rev. Dr. J. Hawes, Dr. H. Bushnell; Worcester, Mass, 1854: Rev. S Sweetster, E. Smalley, Geo. Bushnell, Dr. A. Hill, Hon. John Davis, Rev. O. H. Tillotson.; Boston, Mass, 1859: Rev. John W. Dadman, E. E. Hall | |||||||||||||||
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note: I have known the Rev. G. W. Offley for many years. He has been a faithful, and eminently useful man and minister, among his people. I have good reason to believe in his integrity, purity and piety. I think him entitled to confidence and sympathy. S.K Lothrop. | |||||||||||||||
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note: Two [anonymous] hymns are printed on the last three pages of the text: "Hymn Called the Lamb of God" (9 stanzas, pages 50-51), "Jacob's Ladder" (stanza + chorus, 51; 4 additional stanzas, 52) | |||||||||||||||
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date: 1860
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Latest revision as of 23:21, 3 October 2024
1860 Hartford edition, variant printing
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| English | Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley (1860 Hartford edition, variant 2) |
1860 Hartford edition, variant printing |
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[1] A NARRATIVE | OF THE | LIFE AND LABORS | OF THE | REV. G.W. OFFLEY, | A COLORED MAN, | AND LOCAL PREACHER, | Who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty- | four 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 |
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[2] 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. | An interesting story of a slave woman, Jane Brown-- | her dream fulfilled--the separation of her husband and | two children. | The escape of D. Green, a slave woman and her infant, |
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in one night, by the aid of a white woman and three | colored men. | Proposition of a slaveholder to G.W. Offley to marry his | slave girl. | The slave girl runaway and got married on Saturday night | and came home Sunday morning. | HARTFORD, CONN. | 1860.
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NAMES OF GENTLEMEN WHO SPEAK IN HIGH TERMS OF HIS MORAL WORTH
Ware, Mass, Feb. 1852: Rev. W. Ward; Hartford, Conn, 1854: Rev. Dr. J. Hawes, Dr. H. Bushnell; Worcester, Mass, 1854: Rev. S Sweetster, E. Smalley, Geo. Bushnell, Dr. A. Hill, Hon. John Davis, Rev. O. H. Tillotson.; Boston, Mass, 1859: Rev. John W. Dadman, E. E. Hall
I have known the Rev. G. W. Offley for many years. He has been a faithful, and eminently useful man and minister, among his people. I have good reason to believe in his integrity, purity and piety. I think him entitled to confidence and sympathy. S.K Lothrop.
verso of the title page
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Two [anonymous] hymns are printed on the last three pages of the text: "Hymn Called the Lamb of God" (9 stanzas, pages 50-51), "Jacob's Ladder" (stanza + chorus, 51; 4 additional stanzas, 52)
pages 50-52
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