John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative - Paperback
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John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative
In 1872, just seven years after his emancipation, a thirty-four-year-old former slave named John Washington penned the story of his life, calling it "Memorys of the Past." One hundred and twenty years later, in the early 1990s, historian Crandall Shifflett stumbled upon Washington's forgotten manuscript at the Library of Congress while researching Civil War Fredericksburg. Over the ensuing...
Crandall Shifflett is a professor of history at Virginia Tech University. He is also the author of Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860--1900, Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880--1960, and Victorian America, 1876 to 1913.
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