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An affecting history of the captivity & sufferings of Mrs. Mary Velnet, an Italian lady Who was seven years a slave in Tripoli, three of which she was confined in a dungeon, loaded with irons, and four times put to the most cruel tortures ever invented by man / written by herself.

1800

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Hamilton 185
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Publisher
Boston: Published for W. Crary [1800?]
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Author
Velnet, Mary, 1774-
Related Name
Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books
Language
English
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Velnet, Mary b. 1774
Slavery—Libya—Tripoli
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