The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man. Recollections of H. C. Bruce (Blacks in the American West)

After years of slaving on the plantation in Missouri and working in tobacco factories H C Bruce escaped to freedom in Kansas with his future wife. In the 1880s he moved to the District of Columbia to take a federal job arranged by his brother Blanche K Bruce a senator from Mississippi. This title presents complex story of this mans life.