

A Slave No More
Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
Author: David W. Blight
Narrator: David W. Blight, Richard Allen, Dion Graham
Abridged: 9 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/06/2007
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Historical Biography, Social Science, Slavery
Synopsis
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 us remarkable accounts of their flights to freedom. Handed down through family and friends these narratives tell gripping stories of escape.
Working from an unusual abundance of genealogical material, historian David W. Blight has reconstructed Turnage’s and Washington’s childhoods as sons of white slaveholders and their climb to black working-class stability in the North, where they reunited their families. In A Slave No More, the untold stories of two ordinary men take their place at the heart of the American experience.