David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’
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‘Balm’: A D.C. Writer’s Moving Tale of Hope and Healing in Slavery’s Wake
In 2011, Washington writer Dolen Perkins-Valdez published “Wench,” an unsparing look at the brutal relationships between Southern plantation owners and the slaves they kept as mistresses.
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