A SLAVE NO MORE: TWO MEN WHO ESCAPED TO FREEDOM, INCLUDING THEIR OWN NARRATIVES OF EMANCIPATION.
by Blight, David W. (John Washington & Wallace Turnage.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0151012326
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012329
- Seller
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About This Item
Orlando : Harcourt , 2007. 307 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations, maps. "Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and 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. Both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell gripping stories of escape. (But this book) is also the discovery of two lives. Working from an unusual abundance of genealogical material, (the author) has reconstructed Turnage's and Washington's 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. (Here) we find a revelatory new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom." Wrinkling at the bottom of the spine. Dust jacket has light colour fading on the spine, minor edge wear/wrinkling at top/bottom of hinges and flap-folds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-.
Synopsis
Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five 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, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of the occupying Union troops. David W. Blight magnifies the drama and significance by prefacing the narratives with each man’s life history. Using a wealth of 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 Turnage and Washington, we find history at its most intimate, portals that offer a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom. In A Slave No More, the untold stories of two ordinary men take their place at the heart of the American experience.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30638
- Title
- A SLAVE NO MORE: TWO MEN WHO ESCAPED TO FREEDOM, INCLUDING THEIR OWN NARRATIVES OF EMANCIPATION.
- Author
- Blight, David W. (John Washington & Wallace Turnage.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151012326
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012329
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- Date Published
- 2007
- LCCN
- 2007014467
- Keywords
- John Washington, Wallace Turnage, Slaves, Slavery, Fugitive Slaves, Biography, Black Americans, African Americans, 19th America, United States, Virginia, Fredericksburg, North Carolina, Green County, Slave Narratives, James Chalmers, Colonization Schemes,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - Civil War; American History & Travel;
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