Louis Hughes
Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wealthy slaveowner who had a home near Memphis and plantation nearby in Mississippi. Hughes lived there as a house servant until near the end of the Civil War, when he escaped to the Union lines and then, in a daring adventure with the paid help of two Union soldiers, returned to the plantation for his wife. The couple made their way to...
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
Louis Hughes
Breaking the Chains - Collection of the Most Influential Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Louis Hughes, Elizabeth Keckley, Nat Turner, Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano, Willie Lynch, William Still, Josiah Henson, Sarah H. Bradford, Jacob D. Green
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