Wallace Turnage
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Wallace Turnage (1846-1916) was an escaped slave who wrote a narrative that was published.
[edit] Biography
He was born in North Carolina, and was the son of a fifteen-year old slave and a white man. He was sold multiple times and made repeated attempts to run away, and succeeded. He lived in New York and New Jersey, working as a waiter, janitor, glass blower and finally as a watchman. [1]
His manuscript was passed on to his daughter, Lydia Turnage Connolly (1885-1984). After her death, it was another 20 years before it was published.
[edit] External links
- Wallace Turnage at Hstg
[edit] References
- ^ "Wallace Turnage", Hstg. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
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