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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 ed.

Publisher:

Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Washington, John,--1838-1918.
Turnage, Wallace,--1846-1916.
Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
Slaves--Fredericksburg--Fredericksburg--Biography.
Slaves--Greene County--Greene County--Biography.
United States--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
African Americans--Biography.
Working class--United States--Biography.
Slave narratives--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- 1: Rappahannock river -- 2: Mobile bay -- 3: Unusual evidence -- 4: Logic and the Trump of jubilee -- Author's note -- Memorys of the past / John M Washington -- Journal of Wallace Turnage / Wallace Turnage -- Appendix: Death of our little Johnnie / John Washington -- Acknowledgments -- Notes - Index.

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.

ISBN:

0151012326
9780151012329

OCLC:

(OCoLC)123232269

LCCN:

2007014467

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