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William J. Anderson was born in 1811 to a free mother and a slave father. Anderson's own mother sold him into slavery after his father died, but Anderson escaped in 1836 and wrote an autobiography on his experience as a slave.
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NOTE TO THE READER: PLEASE NOTE VERSION REPRESENTS THE LARGE PRINT EDITION OF "Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave..."By William J. Anderson. "After praying to God and asking His blessing to rest upon me and my book, I enter into the task, because I have the blacks and some of the whites to contend with. The blacks I know will be prejudiced against me because I cease to labor as they do, as a general thing--and some few of the prejudiced whites think that all colored men ought to work with the plough and the hoe. But as I know all kinds of wicked lies will be raised by my own race, I have engaged the arm of Almighty God to help me. The truth is, very few ever have been through what I have."
Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave; Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times! Or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed. Containing Scriptural Views of the Origin of the Black and of the White Man. Also, a Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the United States. Together with an Account of the Services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War-Day and Date, and Interesting Facts
Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri-and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, "Bloody Bill" played the leading role in the most violent arena of the entire war--and did so with a vicious abandon that spread fear throughout the land. A name associated with William Quantrill and Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson was known for never taking prisoners. A former horse thief turned bushwhacker, he became the scourge of Kansas and Missouri with a reputation for unspeakable atrocities. Sometimes he left the bodies of dead Federal soldiers scalped, skinned, and castrated. Sometimes he decapitated them and rearranged th...
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Excerpt from Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave; Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! Or the Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed: Containing Scriptural Views of the Origin of the Black and of the White Man; Also, a Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the United States Slaveholders' laws are positively opposed to the slave's learning anything more than to handle the axe, plough and hoe. Often have I been whipped for trying to learn my book or read my bible; still I was permitted to visit my mother' s cabin, and attend preaching meetings sometimes, with a written passport. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publish...