Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, A Black Man, Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave, under various masters, and was one year in the Navy, with Commodore Barney, during the late war. Containing an account of the manners and usages of the Planters and Slaveholders of the south, a description of the condition and treatment of the Slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.