Fresh Air, David W. Blight, Ruth Washington, Barbara Anne Hinksman, and Maureen Ramos, December 4, 2007

In this edition of Fresh Air, historian David W. Blight discusses his book A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, which explores the harrowing journeys of Wallace Turnage and John Washington through their recently uncovered first-hand narratives of emancipation. As the director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Blight uses genealogical research to illuminate the childhoods and extraordinary escapes of these two men from slavery. The work also features insights from the descendants of John Washington, providing a personal connection to this significant history.