Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War

by Scott Christianson

Book Overview

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 and his experiences in the North on the eve of the Civil War. This engaging narrative represents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076885
• ISBN13: 9780252076886
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"