Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom by Louis Hughes

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/215683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom Author: Louis Hughes Narrator: Rodney Louis Tompkins Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins Release date: 03-26-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings Genres: Revolution & Founding Publisher's Summary: The autobiography of Louis Hughes serves as a window on the daily lives of slaves before and during the Civil War. Born into slavery near Charlottesville, Virginia in 1832, the narrative charts his life through Pontotoc, Mississippi to Memphis where he met his wife Matilda Morgan, to Tombigbee, Alabama and escape from slavery in Mississippi in 1865. Hughes provides unique historical insight into slavery in the Confederacy during the Civil War and concludes with the family living as free people in Milwaukee.