A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery

Roper, Moses

ISBN 10: 0837129079 / ISBN 13: 9780837129075

Published by Negro Universities Press, 1970

About this Item

This is a fine hardcover 1970 facsimile reprint in brown cloth binding, no DJ. Prof. Blyden Jackson's copy with his signature on the front flyleaf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery
• Publisher: Negro Universities Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0837129079
• ISBN 13: 9780837129075
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: Facsimile
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Moses Roper (c. 1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the major early books about life as a slave in the United States - A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper From American Slavery (1838). Moses was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. He grew up with his mother and was trained as a domestic slave until he was about seven years old when his father exchanged him and his mother for other slaves. Roper struggled tremendously when he was put to work in the fields and forests of the South-receiving harsher treatment for his inefficiency from his overseers and masters. Throughout his time in slavery, Moses attempted escape on at least 16 occasions, most of them while under his cruelest master, Mr. Gooch. He became quite famous in England because of his grand escape from American slavery and the book he later wrote about his life as a slave. In his book, he made sure to include explicit examples of the torture methods used by slave holders.