Geneva morganfield biography of abraham
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An Autobiography. Bond and Free:
or, Yearnings for Freedom, from My Green Brier House.
Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom:
Electronic Edition.
Campbell, Israel
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc.
Images scanned by Melissa Graham
Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith
First edition, 2001
ca. 490K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2001.
Source Description:
(title page) An Autobiography. Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, from My Green Brier House. Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom
(cover) Bond and Free
Israel Campbell
vi, [8]-320 p., ill.
PHILADELPHIA:
C. E. P. BRINCKLOE & CO., PRINTERS.
1861.
Call number 326.9C188Y (McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University)
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When Albert Abraham Crabtree was born on 14 September 1923, in Muddy, Saline, Illinois, United States, his father, John Sherman Crabtree Jr, was 33 and his mother, Anna Mable Wallace, was 29. He married Sylvia June Bragg on 14 February 1946, in Morganfield, Union, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Harrisburg Township, Saline, Illinois, United States in 1940 and Calumet Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1950. He died on 10 October 1994, in Valparaiso, Porter, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, New Washington, Washington Township, Clark, Indiana, United States.
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