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.
Electronic resources
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
Content descriptions
| 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Genre: | Slave narratives. |
| LDR | 03842cam a2200553 a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 12928934 | ||
| 003 | CARDINAL | ||
| 005 | 20200921164226.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d s | ||
| 007 | cr cn||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 000720s2000 ncu ot s000 0aeng c | ||
| 035 | . | ‡a(OCoLC)44621529 | |
| 040 | . | ‡aNOC ‡beng ‡cNOC | |
| 042 | . | ‡apcc | |
| 043 | . | ‡an-us-md | |
| 050 | 4. | ‡aE185.18.O36 ‡bA3 1999 | |
| 100 | 1 | . | ‡aOffley, G. W. ‡q(Greensbury Washington), ‡d1808-1896. ‡0(CARDINAL)337024 |
| 245 | 1 | 2. | ‡aA narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley ‡h[electronic resource] : ‡ba 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 / ‡cOffley, G.W. (Greensbury Washington), b. 1808. |
| 250 | . | ‡aElectronic edition | |
| 256 | . | ‡aElectronic data (1 file : ca. 40 kilobytes). | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡a[Chapel Hill, N.C.] : ‡bAcademic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ‡c2000. | |
| 300 | . | ‡a1 online resource | |
| 336 | . | ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent | |
| 337 | . | ‡acomputer ‡bc ‡2rdamedia | |
| 338 | . | ‡aonline resource ‡bcr ‡2rdacarrier | |
| 347 | . | ‡atext file ‡2rdaft | |
| 347 | . | ‡bHTML | |
| 347 | . | ‡bSGML | |
| 500 | . | ‡aText scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Bethany Ronnberg and Natalia Smith. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aThis 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. | |
| 588 | . | ‡aTitle from TEI header. | |
| 534 | . | ‡pTranscribed from: ‡tA 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. ‡cHartford, Conn : [s.n.], 1859. ‡e24 p. ‡nCaption title: Narrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley. | |
| 536 | . | ‡aFunding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title. | |
| 538 | . | ‡aSystem requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; Panorama for SGML files. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0. | ‡aOffley, G. W. ‡q(Greensbury Washington), ‡d1808-1896. ‡0(CARDINAL)337024 |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aAfrican American clergy ‡zMaryland ‡vBiography. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aAfrican Americans ‡zMaryland ‡vBiography. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aFreedmen ‡zMaryland ‡vBiography. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aSlavery ‡zMaryland ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aEnslaved persons' writings, American ‡zMaryland. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aEnslaved persons ‡xReligious life ‡zMaryland ‡xHistory ‡y19th century. | |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aEnslaved persons ‡zMaryland ‡vBiography. | |
| 655 | 7. | ‡aSlave narratives. ‡2lcgft ‡0(CARDINAL)327069 | |
| 710 | 2 | . | ‡aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‡bDocumenting the American South (Project) ‡0(CARDINAL)530366 |
| 710 | 2 | . | ‡aUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ‡bLibrary. ‡0(CARDINAL)155444 |
| 740 | 0 | . | ‡aNarrative of the life of Rev. G.W. Offley. |
| 740 | 0 | . | ‡aNorth American slave narratives. |
| 856 | 4 | 0. | ‡uhttp://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/offley/offley.html ‡7ncgov ‡9CARDINAL ‡yClick for online content. |
| 901 | . | ‡a12928934 ‡bncgov-script 93f2f2779def421b530887b58ed6cbd6ee5e60ef 412717d048f0944c4a0d3ea5a03ffe24cc33bb1f ‡c12928934 ‡tbiblio ‡soclc | |
