The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man. Recollections of H. C. Bruce
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Born to black slaves in 1836, H. C. Bruce took the name of his master, a farmer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. After years of slaving on the plantation in Missouri and working in tobacco factories, Bruce escaped to freedom in Kansas with his future wife. In the 1880s, he moved to the District of Columbia to take a federal job arranged by his brother, Blanche K. Bruce, a senator from Mississippi. The New Man is unusual in its double perspective:...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803261322
ISBN13:9780803261327
Release Date:September 1996
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:165 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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Unique and Interesting Perspective
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This book was very interesting. Offered new insight into the life of a slave and in a region not known for large slave population, Missouri. Quick read, too.
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