A slave no more, two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation, David W. Blight
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A slave no more, two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation, David W. Blight
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eng
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historybiography
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A slave no more
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sound recording
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163906979
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David W. Blight
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two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation
Summary
Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand on an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They never met. But both men saw opportunity in the chaos of the Civil War, both escaped North, and both left listeners remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed down through family and friends these narratives tell gripping stories of escape
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- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
- Slaves -- North Carolina -- Green County -- Biography
- Audiobooks on CD
- Slave narratives -- United States
- Washington, John, 1838-1918
- Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- Biography
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- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans
- Slaves -- North Carolina -- Green County -- Biography
- Audiobooks on CD
- Slave narratives -- United States
- Washington, John, 1838-1918
- Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916
- Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Fredericksburg -- Biography
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