Record #:

15776

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

A document displayed in England illuminated the story of an escaped Brunswick County slave. A pamphlet was printed detailing the life of James Johnson, who fled the Confederate States aboard a Union vessel and made his home in Oldham in 1866. The pamphlet, titled The Life of the Late James Johnson (Colored Evangelist), an Escaped Slave from the Southern State of America, was exhibited a the Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) Archives, Oldham.

Source:

Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 56 Issue 3, July 2008, p108-113, por

Subject(s):

Slavery and slaves in literature