Biography of a Slave: Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life

LARGE PRINT EDITION In publishing this book, I hope to do good not only to my own race, but to all who may read it. I am not a bookmaker, and make no pretensions to literary attainments; and I have made no efforts to create for myself a place in the literary, book-making ranks. I claim for my book truthfulness and honesty of purpose, and upon that basis, it must succeed or fail. The Biography of a Slave is called for by a very large number of my immediate acquaintances, and, I am assured, w...