A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three 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 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 - Onslow County Public Library

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A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three 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 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 Cover Image

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A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley [electronic resource] : a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three 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 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 / Offley, G.W. (Greensbury Washington), b. 1808.

Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), 1808-1896 (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

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Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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General Note:	Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley : a colored man, local preacher and missionary, who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three 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 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. Hartford, Conn : [s.n.], 1859. 24 p. Caption title: Narrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:	System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; Panorama for SGML files.
Source of Description Note:	Title from TEI header.

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