A SLAVE NO MORE: TWO MEN WHO ESCAPED TO FREEDOM, INCLUDING THEIR OWN NARRATIVES OF EMANCIPATION
Book ID/图书代码： 05950007B14407
English Summary/英文概要： Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men reached the protection of the occupying Union troops. David W. Blight magnifies the drama and significance by prefacing the narratives with each man’s life history. Using a wealth of genealogical information, Blight has reconstructed their childhoods as sons of white slaveholders, their service as cooks and camp hands during the Civil War, and their climb to black working-class stability in the north, where they reunited their families.
In the stories of Turnage and Washington, we find history at its most intimate, portals that offer a rich new answer to the question of how four million people moved from slavery to freedom. In A Slave No More, the untold stories of two ordinary men take their place at the heart of the American experience.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 奴隶，虽是历史最震撼的记录，但关于奴隶的自述，真是少之又少，只有55本内战后的小说流传下来，而以逃出来获得自由的奴隶们为主人公的自述就更凤毛麟角了，大概就几本吧。现在，两则新出炉的奴隶自述及作者的传记填补了美国历史文字记载的空缺，这就是本书――《不再做奴隶》。这些奴隶的故事都是通过家庭或朋友口传下来的，讲述的是扣人心弦的逃亡过程：靠着智慧，勇气，胆量以及点点幸运，这些人冲出了奴隶制的束缚，投入了联邦军的怀抱。大卫 布莱特详细记录了这些逃亡历程，并以每个人的生平引出自述。利用家族宗谱上的信息，布莱特为每个奴隶重造了童年，白人的奴隶，内战时期做服务生或在营地打下手，描写了他们怎样历尽艰辛，最终来跟在北方的黑人家庭团聚的故事
特纳杰和华盛顿的故事几乎是历史的回溯，把我们带到了过去的门口，透过它相信我们可以找到新答案：四百万奴隶是怎样逃脱奴隶命运而走上自由的道路的。在本书中，两位普通人将带所有美国人重新感受那未听完的故事。。。
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About the Author/作者介绍： WALLACE TURNAGE (1846–1916) was born in Snow Hill, North Carolina, and spent his adult life in New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey.
JOHN WASHINGTON (1838–1918), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, worked as a house and sign painter in Washington, D.C., after his escape. He retired to Cohasset, Massachusetts.
DAVID W. BLIGHT is the director of Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and a professor of American history. Among his books is Race and Reunion, which won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Lincoln Prize, and the Bancroft Prize. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
华来士 特纳杰（1846－1916）出生于北卡罗琳那州的雪山城，后一直居住在纽约城，新泽西的泽西城。
约翰 华盛顿（1838－1918）出生于弗吉尼亚州，逃脱奴隶制后在华盛顿城做家居和标语画匠。退休后居住于马塞诸塞州。
大卫 布莱特是位美国历史学教授，同时也是耶鲁大学莱尔曼研究中心的主任。他的著作《种族和团结》为他赢得弗 道格拉斯奖，林肯奖以及班克罗夫特奖。
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