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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 15, 2016
Caption: Slavery in The United States: A Narrative…
Additional Description:
In his memoir, Charles Ball describes himself as a seaman and a cook on a barge in Commodore Barney's flotilla.

Ball was working at a fishery near the mouth of the Patuxent River when the British came to the Chesapeake in the Spring of 1813.

"I did not enlist with Commodore Barney until the month of December, I8I3: but as I resided in Calvert county, in the summer of I8I3, I had an opportunity of witnessing many of the evils that followed in the train of war, before I assumed the profession of arms myself." Charles Ball, 1837Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: July 15, 2016, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p356385
File Size: 1.322 Megabytes

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