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The life, labors, and travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist denomination [electronic resource] / by Eld. John W. Lewis ; together with an essay on the character and condition of the African race by the same. Also, an essay on the Fugitive Law of the U.S. Congress of 1850 / by Rev. Arthur Dearing.

Lewis, John W., Eld. (Author). Dearing, Arthur. Essay on the fugitive law of the U.S. Congress of 1850. (Added Author). Lewis, John W., Eld. Essay on the character and condition of the African race. (Added 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 Bryan Sinche and Lee Fallon. Images scanned by Lee Ann Morawski. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski 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.
Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: The life, labors, and travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist denomination / by Eld. John W. Lewis ; together with an essay on the character and condition of the African race by the same. Also, an essay on the Fugitive Law of the U.S. Congress of 1850 / by Rev. Arthur Dearing. Watertown : Ingalls & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852. 287 p. ; 20 cm.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.
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System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject: Bowles, Charles, 1761-1843.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
African American Baptists > Clergy > Biography.
African American Baptists > New England > History.
African American Baptists > New York (State) > History.
African American clergy > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Religion.
Black race.
Civil rights > United States.
Slavery and the church > Baptists.
Slavery > United States.
Genre: Slave narratives.