A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.
2007
E450.W325 B58 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.
Author
Blight, David W.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780151012329 (hardcover)
0151012326
0151012326
Imprint
Orlando : Harcourt, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
E450.W325 B58 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/115
B
B
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.