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Old plantation days
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Born a slave in North Carolina in 1826, William Mallory was sold to the LeBlanc family in Virginia as a boy. He was given to a son-in-law of Mr. LeBlanc's and became the slave of Susten Allen, a Wh...
Born a slave in North Carolina in 1826, William Mallory was sold to the LeBlanc family in Virginia as a boy. He was given to a son-in-law of Mr. LeBlanc's and became the slave of Susten Allen, a White House official. In 1860, Mallory escaped to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. When the Civil War broke out, he returned to the U.S. and joined the Union Army, eventually rising to the rank of Colonel. Mallory fought at Bull Run, Vicksburg, New Orleans and Gettysburg. After the war, Mallory returned to Canada and became a businessman and missionary to Africa. He was also quite involved in Canadian politics. The book includes a number of poems by Mallory, articles about him, and his descriptions of his father's capture and enslavement in Africa and his brother's actions in saving a burning church, St. Michael's Cathedral in Charleston, South Carolina.
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- Creator
- Col. W. Mallory
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- North American slave narratives
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Electronic edition
- [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999
- OCLC
- ocm41576235
- Title from TEI header.
- This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
- Text scanned (OCR) by Fiona Mills. Images scanned by Fiona Mills. Text encoded by Susan Huffman and Natalia Smith.
- Transcribed from: Old plantation days / Col. W. Mallory, ex-slave. 3rd ed. [Hamilton, Ontario? : s.n., 1902?] 56 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
- Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.
- System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection.
Subjects
- Mallory, William, 1826-
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography.
- Black people -- Canada -- Biography.
- Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Biography.
- Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- Fugitive slaves -- Southern States -- Biography.
- Slavery -- Poetry.
- African American missionaries -- Africa.
- Zulu (African people) -- South Africa -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African Americans.