In this excerpt from the beginning of his memoir Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, Thomas L. Johnson tells of his boyhood as a slave in Virginia and his religious awakening. This is from the book’s seventh edition, published in 1909.
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In this excerpt from the beginning of his memoir Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, Thomas L. Johnson tells of his boyhood as a slave in Virginia and his religious awakening. This is from the book’s seventh edition, published in 1909.
