The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives
The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives
Edited and with introductions by: Devon Carbado and Donald Weise
Publisher: Beacon Press (August 21, 2012)
In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades – more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship.
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