Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave: Escaping the Horror (2 Memoirs)
By Louis Hughes and Jacob D. Green
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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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