Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke: Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution

Their father and master was a white veteran of the American Revolution. Their mother was half white and was promised emancipation for her children upon the death of her master. But it was not to be.

Lewis and Milton Clarke, along with their siblings, spent decades in slavery. In this book, they describe their eventual escape and reunion in a free state. Though they appeared Caucasian, they struggled to gain the basic human rights they expected from a free society.

Well-known abolitionist politician, Cassius Marcellus Clay, met them in Boston and recognized them as being from the Kentucky Clarke family.

They became activist abolitionists and lectured to groups wherever they could about the evils of America's "peculiar institution."

First published in 1846, this remarkable story is an important contribution to pre-Civil War anti-slavery literature.

For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones.

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