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Wallace Turnage is not a famous person, but historians are fascinated with the discovery of the former slave’s story. In a letter written to his family 100 years ago, Turnage recorded a vivid account of his escape to freedom. Dr. Joseph S. Moore, assistant professor of history at Gardner-Webb University, studied this handwritten document and other slave narratives during a seminar this summer at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

Publication Date

7-6-2016

Publisher

Gardner-Webb University

City

Boiling Springs

Keywords

Andrew M. Mellon Foundation, Council of Independent Colleges, David Blight, Dr. Ben Leslie, Dr. Joseph Moore, Founding Sins: How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Quincy Adams, Slave Narratives, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Yale University

Slave History Takes on New Meaning for GWU Professor

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