02844cam a2200301 4500 2748774198 TxAuBib 20250506120000.0 260506s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250364241 1250364248 a13qtd89 CloudLibrary MnSpTMCL eng MnSpTMCL TxAuBib O'Malley, Gregory E. The Escapes of David George [CloudLibrary] : An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution / O'Malley, Gregory E.. [S.l. : St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2026. 1 online resource. 304 p. Electronic book. "Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "remarkable ... intriguing ... an inspiring portrait of an enslaved man" --The Wall Street Journal When most Americans think of slavery, they do not picture the colonial or revolutionary eras. Yet, in fact, one of six inhabitants of the thirteen original colonies was enslaved. The Escapes of David George: an Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution reveals a remarkable, untold experience of the American revolutionary period—a Black man’s quest for the freedom espoused by our Founders, but denied him and other enslaved people. In 1762, at the age of 19, David George escaped from a plantation in Virginia. Running southwest by night, fording rivers and crossing borders, he embarked on a decades-long journey in and out of captivity that spanned multiple colonies and thousands of miles. George lived among White, Black, Creek, and Natchez settlements, fled to the British Army for the promise of liberty, founded what might have been the first Black Baptist church, helped to hack a settlement for refugees out of the Nova Scotia wilderness, and died as a leader of an experimental anti-slavery community in Sierra Leone. Piecing together archival records and David George’s own brief account of his life—the earliest written testimony by a fugitive enslaved person in North America—Gregory O’Malley presents a thrilling narrative and a unique perspective on our nation’s origins, principles, and contradictions. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] St. Martin's Publishing Group 2026 Available via World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB. Requires: CloudLibrary (file size: 5.9 MB.) HISTORY|United States|Revolutionary Period (1775-1800.) Electronic books. CloudLibrary. https://ebook.yourcloudlibrary.com/library/ereadtexas-document_id-a13qtd89 CloudLibrary TXMLR