Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War.

Authors

Robert E. McGlone

ISBN

978-0-252-03439-8

Price

$65.00

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Abstract

Examining Flashpoints on the Road to Civil War

A novelist could scarcely have contrived a more harrowing tale than Freeing Charles. Charles Nalle was a fugitive Virginia slave whose capture and tumultuous rescue in upstate New York by an abolitionist mob in April 1860 created a ....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.12.4.11

Recommended Citation

McGlone, Robert E. (2010) "Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War.," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 12 : Iss. 4 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.12.4.11
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol12/iss4/11