Slave No More Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

Name: Slave No More Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9780156034517

ISBN-10: 0156034514

ISBN-13: 9780156034517

Edition: 2007

Authors: David W. Blight

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Slave narratives are extremely rare; very few are first-person accounts by slaves who freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group. Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped north, and both left remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. This book is more than their narratives: working from an abundance of genealogical material, the historian David W. Blight has discovered and reconstructed their lives-from slave childhood to black working-class…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

David W. Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.



Prologue



The Rappahannock River



Mobile Bay



Unusual Evidence



The Logic and the Trump of Jubilee


Author’s Note


“Memorys of the Past”



“Journal of Wallace Turnage”




“The Death of Our Little Johnnie”



Acknowledgments


Notes


Index