The Great Escapes: Four Slave Narratives (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

by Various; Brooks, Daphne A.; Brooks, Daphne A.; Gonda, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9781593082949
• ISBN10: 1593082940
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics

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Table of Contents

The World of The Great Escapes	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
The Great Escapes	p. 1
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (1848)	p. 3
Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)	p. 93
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851)	p. 161
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)	p. 221
Glossary of Names	p. 287
Endnotes	p. 295
Inspired by The Great Escapes	p. 305
Excerpts from Josephine Brown's: Biography of an American Bondman (1856)	p. 309
For Further Reading	p. 321
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