Check out my interview at The Table about multiple identities, migration, culture, and my recent book here. For more, I discuss this elsewhere as well. …
Identity
Slave Country
“Once I became so impatient seeing the free country in view and I still in the slave country . . .” – Wallace Turnage (p.253) Wallace Turnage may not be a household name in the history books, but he has schooled me. David Blight, a historian who verified two slave narratives in his book, A Slave No More, describes Wallace Turnage's and John Washington's individual journeys from slavery to …