Freeing Charles The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War |
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| Author:
| Christianson, Scott |
| Series title: | New Black Studies Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07688-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad ......
Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad ......