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Category : Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1058

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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1358

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Category : Alexandria (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1636

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: David Mayer Silver
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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More than four decades after its initial publication this book is still the only one to focus exclusively on President Abraham Lincoln's role in modifying the Supreme Court membership to secure the power he needed to save the Union.

Author: Salmon Portland Chase
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384728
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 894

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Author: David W. Blight
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0156035480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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