Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 41.90
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2010
Herausgeber
C. L. InnesVerlag
Lsu PressSeitenzahl
166
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/0.9 cm
Gewicht
218 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8071-3684-3
In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try to escape. He joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Long forgotten and never before published in the United States, Fedric's narratives, collected here for the first time, are certain to take their rightful place alongside the most recognizable accounts in the canon of slave memoirs.
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