The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson by Lolita Buckner InnissMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is largely a scholarly work, bereft of the novelist's techniques to enliven history. Still, it is an engaging and enlightening tail bringing together the faint threads of evidence on a life's arc from fleeing slavery in Maryland to a life on the margins vending and butlering to a largely uncaring student body in Princeton. This is a fascinating, illustrative, and educational biography.
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