The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) EPUB
by Daphne A. Brooks
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Collected in this volume are four published slave narratives of daring escapes to freedom. William and Ellen Crafts Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom (1860), tells the story of the couple reaching freedom in 1848 by travelling openly by trainwith Ellen Craft posing as a white male planter and William as her servant. This is followed by two versions of Henry Box Browns escape by mailing himself to Philadelphia in 1849Narrative of Henry Box Brown, published that same year in America and Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, published in 1851 in Britain. Finally, William Wells Browns Narrative of William Wells Brown (1847), tells of the young mans surreptitious exit from a steamboat docked in Ohio, a free state, in 1834.
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- Publication Date:01/06/2009
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- ISBN:9781411432253