Thirty years a slave, from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter : autobiography of Louis Hughes

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Hughes, Louis, author

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Louis Hughes was born into slavery in Virginia in 1832. Over the thirty years he was a slave he secretly learned to read and write, and then published this incredibly detailed autobiography about h...

Louis Hughes was born into slavery in Virginia in 1832. Over the thirty years he was a slave he secretly learned to read and write, and then published this incredibly detailed autobiography about his experiences of slavery.

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