The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon
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The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia, in-America.
By Anonymous
Softcover, 8 pages, 5 1/2″ × 8 1/2″
Made in America.
This c. 1760 story describes the life of a young apprentice born in London who falls into bad company and finds himself being sold along with slaves to work on a plantation in Virginia. The entire story is written in rhyme that could be set to music and sung as a ballad. As an interpretive tool much may be learned about the slave trade, clothing, and the life of the laboring poor. Several original copies of this book are held in collections both public and private.
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