Book/Printed Material The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.
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Image 1 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. Sat 7 e EXPERIENCE OF THOMAS JONES WHO WAS VY a A SY A SLAVE FOR FORTYTHREE YEARS ee 4 Ss fax Tes tee 3- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 2 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. Class Book lt- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 3 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 4 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 5 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 6 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 7 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. THE EXPERIENCE OF THOMAS JONES wHo WAS A SLAVE FOR FORTYTHREE YEARS WRITTEN BY A FRIEND AS GIVEN TO HIM BY BROTHER JONES BOSTON PRINTED BY DANIEL LAING JR 1850- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 8 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. win a maar anso rama ro fn Hxercng sent vine pe eet me fer ea Jae Ape aia leg ae Se rw 1 jh dae 50 Beg m S207 ie- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 9 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. TO THE FRIENDS OF SUFFERING HUMANITY The undersigned take pleasure in certifying that they have formed an acquaintance with Brother Thomas Jones since his escape from slavery having seen and perused his…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 10 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. A suffering brother would affectionately present this simple story of deep personal wrongs to the earnest friends of the Slave He asks you to buy and read it for in so doing…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 11 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE I was born a slave My recollections of early life are associated with poverty suffering and shame I was made to feel in my boyhoods first experience…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 12 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 6 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE curable woe of their position and destiny and of the lot of inevitable suffering in store for their beloved children They talked about our coming misery…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 13 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 7 supply which they might need the slaves were com pelled to get by extra work or do without The supply of food given out to the…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 14 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 8 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE heart Oh that these happy merry boys and girls whom I have seen in Massachusetts since my escape from slavery whom I have so often met…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 15 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLATE 9 heartbroken utterly desolate weak and dying alone re mained I saw her and wept once more on her bosom I went back to my chains with…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 16 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 10 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE My journey to Wilmington with the heartless Abra ham was a very sad one We walked all the way I was afraid of my savage companion…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 17 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 11 been torn from my home my yearning heart was de prived of the sweet sympathy of those to whose memory I then clung and to whom…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 18 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 12 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE the house into the store My business there was to open and sweep out the store in the morning and get all the things ready for…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 19 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 13 character of two men as there was between that of my master and my friend and benefactor David Cogdell And I often wished that I might…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 20 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 14 NARRATIVE OF AREFUGEE SLAVE waking hours and stirring up earnest thoughts in my soul even when I slept The question which then took hold of my whole consciousness was how can…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 21 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 15 poses and hopes a new life in fact in my experience My miud was excited The words spoken by James Dixon of the great advantages of…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 22 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 16 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE was not for such as me to try to improve that J was a slave and that it was not proper for me to learn to…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 23 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 17 Is it any wonder that the spirit of selfrespect of the poor ignorant slave is broken down by such treatment of un sparing and persevering cruelty…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 24 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 18 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE study I could give it by stealth during the day and night And then again I felt lifted up and happy I was permitted to enjoy…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 25 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 19 give me any instruction but he heard me read a few words and then told me I should learn if I would only persevere as nobly…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 26 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 20 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE door Without a moments hesitation I determined to save my precious book and my future opportunities to learn out of it I knew if my book…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 27 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 21 shirt again I did as he bade me although my coarse shirt touching my raw back put me to a cruel pain He then went out…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 28 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 22 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE for my unhappy mind I felt so bad that I could not even study my book My master saw that I looked very unhappy and he…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 29 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 23 Binney Pennison a colored free man I asked my mas ter towards night if I might go out I told him I did not feel well…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 30 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 24 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE round about their souls MceCauslin then left Joseph came and told the same story about the night before that I had done and then he began…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 31 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 25 warming my heart and making me very happy I shout ed aloud for joy and tried to tell all my poor slave broth ers and sisters…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 32 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 26 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE Ihad disobeyed him in staying out all night He had told me he should whip me if ever I did so and he should make every…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 33 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 27 with such joy when I first began to learn to read I found much happiness in prayer But here also my mind labored 1n sadness and…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 34 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 28 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE purchased by Owen Holmes for 43500 I was then in my tweutythird year I had just passed through the darkest season of despairing agony that I…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 35 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE 29 CHAPTER SECOND Tenter now upon a new development of wrongs and woes which I as a slave was called to undergo I must go back sone…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 36 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 30 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE And so I sought to love and to win a true heart in return I did this too with a full knowledge of the desperate agony…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 37 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLATE 31 ones and then she would say with tears Who knows Thomas but they may yet be free and happy Lucilla was a valuable slave to her…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 38 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 32 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE and parted from them without a word of farewell Our sobs and tears were our only adieu Our hearts were too full of anguish for any…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 39 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE Se and my poor heart froze in its bitter cold Its gloom was deeper than prison or cave could make it Was not there the deserted chairs…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
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Image 40 of The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years. 34 NARRATIVE OF A REFUGEE SLAVE bear another cruel separation from wife and children Yet the dread of it was strong and unceasing upon my mind So we made a box and…- Contributor: Jones, Thomas H.
- Date: 1850
About this Item
Title
- The experience of Thomas Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years.
Names
- Jones, Thomas H.
Created / Published
- Boston : Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850.
Headings
- - Jones, Thomas H
- - Slavery--United States--Personal narratives
Notes
- - Includes letters written and received by Thomas Jones.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 47 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E444 .J79
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11022461
OCLC Number
- 21582898
Online Format
- online text
- image