The Promised Land: Just A Fraction Of Slaves Succeeded In Escaping, But Their Stories Are Compelling

Authors

Kent Gramm

ISBN

195084497

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

Henry David Thoreau said that historians show us the present more than the past, and nothing illustrates his statement better than Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. The book's thesis is that "violence and cruelty . . . were inherent in the s....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.1.1.28

Recommended Citation

Gramm, Kent (1999) "The Promised Land: Just A Fraction Of Slaves Succeeded In Escaping, But Their Stories Are Compelling," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.1.1.28
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol1/iss1/28