Runaway Slaves
Subtitle: Rebels on the Plantation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780195084511
First sentence: ON 17 AUGUST 1840, the day of a great Whig political convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Jake, a slave owned by an old and respected farmer, Robert Bradford, refused to go to work.