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  • Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom

  • The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter
  • Written by: Louis Hughes
  • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
  • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

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Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom

Written by: Louis Hughes
Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
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Publisher's Summary

The autobiography of Louis Hughes serves as a window on the daily lives of slaves before and during the Civil War. Born into slavery near Charlottesville, Virginia in 1832, the narrative charts his life through Pontotoc, Mississippi to Memphis where he met his wife Matilda Morgan, to Tombigbee, Alabama and escape from slavery in Mississippi in 1865. Hughes provides unique historical insight into slavery in the Confederacy during the Civil War and concludes with the family living as free people in Milwaukee.

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  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Categories: History

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