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The Heroic Slave

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Famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass based his only fictional work on a gripping true story.

The Heroic Slave was inspired by the courageous 1841 uprising led by Madison Washington aboard a slave ship bound for New Orleans.

Washington rallied 18 others to take control of the vessel and sail it to freedom in the Bahamas.

This retelling equates their right to rebel with the spirit of the American Revolution.

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Dover Publications Inc.
0486831655 / 9780486831657
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30/09/2019
United States
64 pages
127 x 203 mm, 55 grams