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Fifty Years in Chains

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7
Page count: 5
Categories: African-American, Slavery
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Author

Charles
Ball

Appeared in

Third World Voices for Children

Story Summary

Charles Ball, a slave, writes of his early separation from his mother and father and his subsequent life in chains.