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A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
David W. Blight
- 320 pages
- English
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A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
David W. Blight
About This Book
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnageâand their harrowing and empowering journey to emancipation. Slave narratives, among the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five surviving post-Civil War. This book is a major new addition to this imperative part of American historyâthe firsthand accounts of two slaves, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, who through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, reached the protection of the occupying Union troops and found emancipation. In A Slave No More, David W. Blight enriches the authentic narrative texts of these two young men using a wealth of genealogical information, handed down through family and friends. Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their struggle to stable lives among the black working class in the north, where they reunited their families. In the previously unpublished manuscripts of Turnage and Washington, we find history at its most intimate, portals that offer a startling new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to liberty. Here are the untold stories of two extraordinary men whose stories, once thought lost, now take their place at the heart of the American experienceâas Blight rightfully calls them, "heroes of a war within the war." "These powerful memoirs reveal poignant, heroic, painful and inspiring lives."â Publishers Weekly
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- The Rappahannock River
- Mobile Bay
- Unusual Evidence
- The Logic and the Trump of Jubilee
- Illustrations
- Authorâs Note
- âMemorys of the Pastâ: John M. Washington
- Journal of Wallace Turnage
- Appendix
- Epilogue: The Discovery of Descendents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes