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Chains and freedom, or, The life and adventures of Peter Wheeler a colored man yet living : a slave in chains, a sailor on the deep, and a sinner at the cross

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Life and adventures of Peter Wheeler (portion title)

Wheeler, Peter 1789-1842 (Author). Lester, C. Edwards (Charles Edwards) 1815-1890 (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).

Summary: Formatted as an oral history interview, with questions and answers written in dialect, Charles Edwards Lester ("author of the 'Mountain wild flower'") interviewed Peter Wheeler, born a slave in 1789, in Little Egg Harbour, a parish of Tuckertown, New Jersey, to publish a slave narrative that would evoke sympathy for the Abolitionist movement. The first part is Wheeler's slavery days from his childhood which was pleasant until he was eleven and was sold to Gideon Morehouse, where his life as a slave becomes harsh and brutal. It concludes with his successful escape to New York and a section in which Lester discusses several points relating to the narrative and the larger issues of slavery and Abolition. The second part describes Wheeler's life as a freedman and travels to the West Indies and Europe, and his continuing experiences with slavery. The third and final part details his life in various New England states, his marriage, and concludes with his conversion to Christianity.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Special Collections, L. Douglas Wilder Library, Virginia Union University, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., 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 caption (viewed May 16, 2003).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from a photocopy of: Chains and freedom, or, The life and adventures of Peter Wheeler : a colored man yet living : a slave in chains, a sailor on the deep, and a sinner at the cross / by the author of the 'Mountain wild flower.' New-York : Published by E.S. Arnold & Co., 1839. 260 p. : port. "Three volumes in one."
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation supported the electronic publication of this title.
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