Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley (1860 Hartford Edition) (Q517)
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1860 edition of Offley narrative printed in Hartford
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley (1860 Hartford Edition) |
1860 edition of Offley narrative printed in Hartford |
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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;
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[2] the emancipation | 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. | And interesting story of a slave woman, Jane Brown-- | her dream fulfilled--the separation of her husband and | two children. | The escape of a D. Green, a slave woman
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[3] and her infant, | 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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[rule] | A NARRATIVE | OF THE | LIFE AND LABORS | OF THE | REV. G. W. OFFLEY, | A COLORED MAN, AND LOCAL PREACHER. | WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. | [rule] | PRICE 15 CENTS.
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