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    TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free: Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free
    TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free: Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free
    TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free: Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free
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    TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free: Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free

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    "The institution of human slavery, as it existed in this country, has long been dead; and, happily for all the sacred interests which it assailed, there is for it no resurrection. It may, therefore, be asked to what purpose is the story which follows, of the experiences of one person under that dead and accursed institution?..." (Thirty Years a Slave)
    "Thirty Years a Slave" gives a glimpse the pitiable conditions of slaves, their inhuman treatment by their owners, the politics of slave markets and their complex relationships with the white population. In this book the author Louis Hughes dwells upon the intimate aspects of his own life like the painful separation with his mother and his marriage, his personal tragedies and his attempts of running away from the bondage of slavery.
    "Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave" is another remarkable autobiography by Jacob D. Green which dwells on his three prominent attempts to escape in 1839, 1846, and 1848 and his perseverance in the face of failures.
    Louis Hughes was born on a Virginian Plantation to a mixed race parents with a Black slave mother and sold in Richmond slave market in 1844. While still in slavery he learnt about medicines from his master and helped his fellow slaves. After emancipation Hughes became a successful businessman in Wisconsin and wrote his autobiography.
    Jacob D. Green was born into slavery with 113 other slaves on a plantation in Kentucky with only his mother as family. Green did many "awful" things like seeking a murderous revenge from a man who thrashed him and making daring choices that would eventually lead to his freedom.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateFeb 9, 2017
    ISBN9788026873723
    TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free: Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free
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    Louis Hughes

    LOUIS HUGHES (1832-1913) was an African American enslaved person born in Virginia. He was enslaved for over thirty years, spending most of that time in Tennessee. During that time, he learned in secret how to read and write. Thirty-three years after gaining freedom at the end of the Civil War, he wrote his memoir Thirty Years a Slave, published in 1897. It is considered an essential text for understanding the experience of slavery in western Tennessee. Hughes died in Milwaukee in 1913.

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