Book Launch Celebration at Bush-Holley Historic Site
Book Launch Celebration at Bush-Holley Historic Site
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David Blight
Thursday, December 6, 6:30 p.m. - A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by David Blight
Book Launch Celebration
in the Vanderbilt Education Center
Free admission
Join us to celebrate the recently published work, A Slave No More by David Blight. The book features the Wallace Turnage slave narrative, held in the collection of the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, and also the slave narrative of John Washington. Filled with the two men’s humor, faith, and joy, A Slave No More offers a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom, and tells the previously untold stories of two men who can now take their place in the canon of American history.
David Blight is the Director of Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and is also a professor of American history. His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Lincoln Prize, four awards from the Organization of American Historians, and the Bancroft Prize. He writes for The Washington Post and lectures around the country on slavery and the Civil War, and lives in New Haven, CT.
