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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Blight, David W.       by title:      A slave no more : tw...       by call number:      973.7115 B648s     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 973.7115 B648s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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