Louis Hughes
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English
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Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wealthy slave-owner who had a home near Memphis and plantation nearby in Mississippi. Hughes lived there as a house servant until near the end of the Civil War, when he escaped to the Union lines and then, in a daring adventure with the paid help of two Union soldiers, returned to the plantation...
3) Thirty Years a Slave - From Bondage to Freedom: With an Introductory Chapter by Frederick Douglass
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English
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Originally published in 1897, "Thirty Years a Slave" is a first person account of life as a slave written by Louis Hughes (1832—1913), an American-born slave belonging to a plantation owner in Charlottesville, Virginia. Having learned to read and write in secret, Hughes wrote this memoir and later became a successful businessman. "Thirty Years a Slave" offers a glimpse into the harrowing life of American slaves in the nineteenth century and is highly...