Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave
by Charles Ball
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Charles Ball
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Charles Ball real name Charles Gross was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive slave, Slavery in the United States (1836). The main source for Ball's lif...
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