Title Five black lives : the autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G. W. Offley, James L. Smith / introd. by Arna Bontemps [ed.].

Publication Info.

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction	305.896 FIVE	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Local History	R SPECIAL 305.896 FIVE	In-Library Use Only

Edition	Paperback ed.
Description	VIII, 240 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Documents of black Connecticut
	Documents of black Connecticut
	Documents of Black Connecticut.
Note	Each part has also special t.p.
	A collection of narratives originally published separately, 1855-97.
Original Version	First print. 1971.
Contents	A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, 1897. -- Life of James March, 1864. -- Life of William Gimes, 1855. -- A narrative the life and labors of G. W. Offley, 1860. -- Autobiography of James L. Smith, 1881.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
	Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)
	Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), 1808-1896.
	Slave narratives.
	Freed persons -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves -- Biography.
	Mars, James, 1790-
Genre/Form	Herinneringen (vorm)
Subject	Grimes, William, 1784-1865.
	Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805.
	Smith, James L.
	Slavernij.
Added Author	Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805.
	Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973.
ISBN	0819561908
	9780819561909

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