A Slave No More
Title | A Slave No More PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Blight |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780156034517 |
Shares the stories of Wallace Turnage and John Washington, former slaves who, in the midst of chaos during the Civil War, escaped to the North and lived to tell about their experiences.
Slave No More
Title | Slave No More PDF eBook |
Author | Aline Helg |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2019-02-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469649640 |
Commanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Africans across the entire Western Hemisphere managed to free themselves hundreds of years before the formation of white-run abolitionist movements. Her sweeping view of resistance and struggle covers more than three centuries, from early colonization to the American and Haitian revolutions, Spanish American independence, and abolition in the British Caribbean. Helg not only underscores the agency of those who managed to become "free people of color" before abolitionism took hold but also assesses in detail the specific strategies they created and utilized. While recognizing the powerful forces supporting slavery, Helg articulates four primary liberation strategies: flight and marronage; manumission by legal document; military service, for men, in exchange for promised emancipation; and revolt—along with a willingness to exploit any weakness in the domination system. Helg looks at such actions at both individual and community levels and in the context of national and international political movements. Bringing together the broad currents of liberal abolitionism with an original analysis of forms of manumission and marronage, Slave No More deepens our understanding of how enslaved men, women, and even children contributed to the slow demise of slavery.
Slaves No More
Title | Slaves No More PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1992-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521436922 |
Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.
A Slave No More
Title | A Slave No More PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Blight |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2009-01-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0156035480 |
The newly discovered slave narratives of John Washington and Wallace Turnage—and 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 history—the 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 experience—as Blight rightfully calls them, “heroes of a war within the war.” “These powerful memoirs reveal poignant, heroic, painful and inspiring lives.”—Publishers Weekly
No More!
Title | No More! PDF eBook |
Author | Doreen Rappaport |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780763609849 |
Combines first-person historical accounts, traditional black spirituals, and passages about the daily lives of slaves to provide a chronicle of slavery in America.
More Than a Slave
Title | More Than a Slave PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret D. Pagan |
Publisher | Moody Publishers |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2003-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 157567839X |
A historical novel to stir the heart! Katherine Ferguson's parents are slaves in the late 1700s. Her mother escapes to New York only to be sold into slavery yet again, this time with her newborn, Katy. As her mother faces being taken away, she prays a desperate prayer, giving the little Katy over to God. More Than a Slave is a story of perseverance and inspiration about Katherine Ferguson, who became a pioneer in the Sunday school movement.
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. [Edited by W. M. S.]
Title | The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina. [Edited by W. M. S.] PDF eBook |
Author | John Andrew Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.