Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916
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Name (Latin)
Turnage, Wallace, 1846-1916
Date of birth
1846-08-24
Date of death
1916
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- "Wallace Turnage, a slave's audacious bid for freedom" in American heritage, fall 2008(born in Green County, North Carolina; sold three times, passing through Richmond (Virginia), Mobile & Pickensville (Alabama); left a memoir of his multiple escapes which was recently discovered and published; served as a cook in the Union Army, marching with them into Mobile in April 1865; after the Civil War, moved to New York City, supporting himself as a laborer before dying in 1916; wrote a memoir in the 1880s of his multiple escapes which was recently discovered and published)
- Blight, D.W. A slave no more, c2007:ECIP t.p. (Wallace Turnage) galley (b. Aug. 24, 1846, in Tyson's Marsh district, Green Co., near Snow Hill, N.C.; son of an enslaved woman named Courtney and a white man, Sylvester Brown Turnage, who was the son of Courtney's owner, Levin Turnage; d. in 1916; buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.)
- Blight, D.W. A slave no more, c2007:ECIP t.p. (Wallace Turnage) galley (b. Aug. 24, 1846, in Tyson's Marsh district, Green Co., near Snow Hill, N.C.; son of a slave woman named Courtney and a white man, Sylvester Brown Turnage, who was the son of Courtney's owner, Levin Turnage; d. in 1916; buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.)