TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - A slave no more :two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation /
DA  - ©2007.
CY  - Orlando :
AU  - Blight, David W.
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - E450.W325
CN  - E450.W325
PB  - Harcourt,
PP  - Orlando :
PY  - ©2007.
ID  - 732425
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Slaves
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Working class
KW  - Slave narratives
SN  - 9780151012329
SN  - 0151012326
TI  - A slave no more :two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014467.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014467.html
ER  -