Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut (1866 Third edition Hartford Case, Lockwood and Company) (Q5241)
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1866 Third Hartford edition, printed by Case Lockwood and Company
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Life of James Mars, A Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut (1866 Third edition Hartford Case, Lockwood and Company) |
1866 Third Hartford edition, printed by Case Lockwood and Company |
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LIFE | OF | JAMES MARS, | A SLAVE | BORN AND SOLD IN | CONNECTICUT. | THIRD EDITION. | [rule] | WRITTEN BY HIMESELF. | [rule] | HARTFORD: | PRESS OF CASE, LOCKWOOD, & COMPANY. | 1866.
Edition statement is on title page but not on paper cover. Another 1866 edition was printed, presumably earlier, without an edition statement.
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33-36
Begins after the death of Mr. Munger, ends on page 36 with the paragraph "Now to my family."
Concludes with a sentence that doesn't seem to appear later, "The sands of life are almost out with me, for I am now in my seventy-seventh year of life, and as my joints are still with old age and hard labor, finding so ready a sale for my pamphlets, I am induced to take this method to get a living, as I can walk about from house to house."
Continues the narrative through to the present, including his marriage and move to Hartford, his successful efforts to keep an enslaved girl from being shipped south via writ of habeus corpus, and the reaction of the community. Brief biographies of his children, an injury from a fall,
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[4], 36 pages
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