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(NARRATIVES.) ARTER,JARED

MAURICE.

Echoes from a Pioneer

Life.

Portrait of the author, his mother

and other vignettes images throughout the

text.

Atlanta: A.B. Caldwell, 1922

[400/600]

FIRST EDITION

,

A SCARCE AND UNUSUAL

NARRATIVE

.

Born in 1850 near Harper’s

Ferry, West Virginia, young Arter actually wit-

nessed the hanging of four of John Brown’s

co-conspirators. When Emancipation came a

few years later, his mother moved the family to

Washington. Her new employer offered to edu-

cate Jared and his brother if they indentured

themselves to him until they were 21. Arter

eventually earned a PhD from Pennsylvania

State College.

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