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Author:
Blight, David W.
Title:
A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.
Edition:
1st Mariner Books ed.
Publisher:
Mariner Books,
Copyright Date:
2009, c2007
Description:
315 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Washington, John,--1838-1918.
Turnage, Wallace,--1846-1916.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
Slaves--Fredericksburg--Fredericksburg--Biography.
Slaves--Green County--Green County--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Working class--United States--Biography.
Slave narratives--United States.
United States--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Notes:
Originally published: Orlando : Harcourt, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-307) and index.
Summary:
Two slave narratives that document the experiences of runaway slaves who managed to reach the protection of Union forces are accompanied by biographies of both men that reconstruct their childhoods, escape, Civil War service, and successful later lives.
ISBN:
0156034514
9780156034517 (pbk.)
LCCN:
bl2009001008
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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