A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation

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A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
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two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
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David W. Blight
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eng
Summary
Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives join that exclusive group. Handed down through family and friends, they tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of occupying Union troops. Historian Blight prefaces the narratives with each man's life history. Using genealogical information, Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their climb to black working-class stability in the North, where they reunited their families. In the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, we find portals that offer a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom.--From publisher description
Biography type
collective biography
Cataloging source
SXB
Dewey number
  • 973.7/115
  • B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
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index present
LC call number
E450.W325
LC item number
B58 2009
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography

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