A Slave No More

John M. Washington was born a slave on May 20, 1838, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Washington begins his narrative with the wry comment that he never had the pleasure of knowing his mother’s owner, Thomas R. Ware, Sr., who died before John was born.

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Posted in History 14.12.2007 on 14:12.


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