# Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave

An audiobook by Charles Ball, read by LibriVox volunteers (10 h 48 min, English).

This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his story to a lawyer who turned it into this written work. (Summary by Tom Causby)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/7196)
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