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July 28, 2021

Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master

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In 2013, Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley published FREE BOY: A True Story of Slave and Master (Seattle: University of Washington Press). FREE BOY explores the decision of slave Charles Mitchell to flee his master James Tilton, on September 24, 1860, following a tiny Puget Sound Underground Railroad. FREE BOY follows the twined biographies of master and slave in the context of the late antebellum and Civil War period.

Reference documents scanned and on website.