Thirty Years A Slave
by Louis Hughes
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Louis Hughes
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Louis Hughes was an African-American slave born in Virginia. He is the author of the memoir Thirty Years a Slave. Hughes was born in 1832 to a white plantation owner and black slave in Charlottesvill...
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