A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
- ISBN-10
- 0156034514
- ISBN-13
- 9780156034517
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 315
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- David W. Blight
Description
Two slave narratives that document the experiences of runaway slaves who managed to reach the protection of Union forces are accompanied by biographies of both men that reconstruct their childhoods, escape, Civil War service, and successful later lives.
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- 2007
- 307 pages
- Paperback
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