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Rambles of a runaway from Southern slavery / (By Henry Goings.)

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Robb, James M

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Chapter I. My birth ... Death of my last master -- Chap. II. My change of name and escape ... -- Chap. III. Landed in Canada ... Marriage of second wife -- Chap. IV. Observations on slavery, the present war, the church, the Irish orator, Shiells -- Chap. V. Remarks on some of the Southern States, and emigration to them. [Reaction to the news of the death of Abraham Lincoln] -- Appendix: [Additional personal observations and accounts]. Addresses delivered by Bvt. Colonel Ben. P. Runkle, U.S.A., Chief Supt. of the Freedmen's Affairs, State of Kentucky, and Bvt. Lieut.-Col. I.S. Catlin, U.S.A., to the Freedmen of Louisville, Oct. 1868. A sermon to servants, delivered by a clergyman in Tennessee.Henry Goings, the son of slave parents Abraham and Catharine Turner, was born in Virginia on the estate of James Walker, "within three miles of a place called Window Shades," (possibly the Windsor Shades plantation in New Kent County). His birth name was Elijah Turner. When Walker died, the slave family was broken up, and Elijah and one of his sisters were sold to the master's son-in-law, Pearson Pricket. Soon thereafter, the Prickets moved to Halifax, North Carolina, where Elijah was sold again, eventually becoming the property of Joseph Smith who renamed him Elijah Smith.When Elijah was approximately 16 years old, the Smiths relocated to Tennessee, and later to Florence, Alabama. Elijah's duties were confined to the house and stables, and as a groom and valet he frequently accompanied his master on extended...

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  1. African Americans
  2. Assassination
  3. Biography
  4. Freedmen
  5. Fugitive Slaves
  6. Goings, Henry, Approximately 1810
  7. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
  8. Slave Narratives
  9. Slaver
  10. Slaves
  11. Southern States
  12. Virginia

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