A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Audiobook (Free)

Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, only handful are first-person accounts by slaves who went aside and freed themselves. Right now two recently uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who had written them, join that unique group.

Wallace Turnage was a teenage field hand with an Alabama plantation, John Washington an urban slave in Virginia. They under no circumstances fulfilled. But both men saw chance in the chaos of the Civil Battle, both escaped North, and both left us extraordinary accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed down through relatives and buddies these narratives inform gripping stories of escape.

Working from a unique large quantity of genealogical material, historian David W. Blight provides reconstructed Turnage’s and Washington’s childhoods as sons of white slaveholders and their climb to dark working-class balance in the North, where they reunited their families. IN THE SLAVE FORGET ABOUT, the untold tales of two normal men take their place in the centre of the American experience.