Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts: Who Has Lived 14 Years in a Cave, Secluded from Human Society: Comprising, an Account of His Birth, Parentage, Sufferings, and Providential Escape from Unjust and Cruel Bondage in Early Life, and His Reasons for Becoming a Recluse.
Title
Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts: Who Has Lived 14 Years in a Cave, Secluded from Human Society: Comprising, an Account of His Birth, Parentage, Sufferings, and Providential Escape from Unjust and Cruel Bondage in Early Life, and His Reasons for Becoming a Recluse.
Creator
Voorhis, Robert, 1769 or 1770- and Trumbull, Henry, 1781-1843
Date
1829
Description
Author: Voorhis, Robert, 1769 or 1770- and Trumbull, Henry, 1781-1843; Publication Information: Providence [RI]: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829.
Source
UNC Documenting the South
Publication Information
Printed for H. Trumbull
Place of publication
Providence [RI]
Physical Description
36 p: 1 port. ; 20 cm.
AAS Catalog Record
Documenting the American South Text
Copyright information
Copyright Jan. 31, 1829 by Henry Trumbull: "the right whereof he claims as author."
Notes
Partnership between Voorhis and Trumbull. The hermit's first-person account of his life occupies p. 10-26, within the larger third-person narrative. "I ... was born, as was my mother (who was of African descent,) in bondage; although my father, as has been represented to me, was not only a pure white blooded Englishman, but a gentleman of considerable eminence."--p. 10.
Collection
Citation
Voorhis, Robert, 1769 or 1770- and Trumbull, Henry, 1781-1843, “Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts: Who Has Lived 14 Years in a Cave, Secluded from Human Society: Comprising, an Account of His Birth, Parentage, Sufferings, and Providential Escape from Unjust and Cruel Bondage in Early Life, and His Reasons for Becoming a Recluse.,” Black Self-Publishing, accessed December 9, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/items/show/11046.