LEADER 00795nam a22001695i 4500001 99131644178106421 005 20251103112119.0 008 251027s1902 ilu 000 0 eng d 040 NjP |beng |erda |cNjP 100 1 Thomas, John, |eauthor. 245 10 Thirty-five years in slavery, and then out : |bin this book I give you a few ideas of my own experience / |cJohn Thomas. 264 1 Monmouth, Illinois : |bJohn Thomas, |c1902. 300 29 pages : |billustration ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 A previously unrecorded slavery narrative, written by a 75-year-old African American man named John Thomas in his own voice and published at Monmouth, Illinois - probably for private distribution - in 1902.