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Blight, David W.
Subjects
Washington, John, 1838-1918.
Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slaves -- Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- Biography.
Slaves -- North Carolina -- Greene County -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Slave narratives -- History -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blacks.
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Blight, David W.
Washington, John, 1838-1918.
Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slaves -- Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- Biography.
Slaves -- North Carolina -- Greene County -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Slave narratives -- History -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blacks.
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A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.
by
Blight, David W.
Mariner Books, 2009, c2007.
Call #:
973.7115 B648s
Subjects
Washington, John, 1838-1918.
Turnage
,
Wallace
,
1846-1916
.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Slaves -- Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- Biography.
Slaves -- North Carolina -- Greene County -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Working class -- United States -- Biography.
Slave narratives -- History -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blacks.
ISBN:
9780156034517 (pbk.)
0156034514 (pbk.)
Description:
315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Orlando : Harcourt, 2007.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307) and index.
Contents:
The Rappahannock river -- Mobile bay -- Unusual evidence -- The logic and the Trump of jubilee.
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.
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