About the author: The author was a slave in Maryland born in the first half of the 1800s. This narrative gives the accounts of his life in slavery and his subsequent harrowing escape to freedom. This book is a narrative which covers topics which were also to be found in other slave narratives such as Twelve Years a Slave. This pre-1923 publication has been converted from its original format for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the conversion.