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Rambles of a runaway from Southern slavery

In 1855 Goings was interviewed by Boston journalist Benjamin Drew, who published the interview under the name "Henry Gowens" on pages 138-143 of "A North-side view of slavery" (Boston : J.P. Jewett, 1856). "Gowens" states that he was born in Virginia and lived on a Lauderdale County, Alabama plantation and tells a story of a cruel overseer named Kimball and a slaved named Donnison. A variant of the story appears in Goings' 1869 narrative.

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  • "In 1855 Goings was interviewed by Boston journalist Benjamin Drew, who published the interview under the name "Henry Gowens" on pages 138-143 of "A North-side view of slavery" (Boston : J.P. Jewett, 1856). "Gowens" states that he was born in Virginia and lived on a Lauderdale County, Alabama plantation and tells a story of a cruel overseer named Kimball and a slaved named Donnison. A variant of the story appears in Goings' 1869 narrative."@en
  • "Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man's name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation's roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings's life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn."@en
  • "Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man's name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation's roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings's life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn."
  • ""Henry Goings" lived in various places in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, before settling in Canada, where he was still living at the time the book was published. The narrative mentions his homestead of a one acre lot and house in Chatham which he sold to pay legal bills. A newspaper advertisement announcing the sale of a farm belonging to Henry Goings appeared in the "Voice of the Fugitive," (Canada's first black abolitionist newspaper) on Dec. 16, 1852."@en
  • "Six years after Elijah's marriage, Joseph Smith died leaving his estate to his young widow. Two years later, when it appeared Mrs. Smith was going to move to Mississippi, Elijah decided to run away. He assumed the name of "Henry Goings," whose "free paper" he had purchased previously for $15, and fled North, leaving his wife behind."@en
  • "Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man's name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation's roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings's life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn."@en
  • "When Elijah was approximately 16 years old, the Smiths relocated to Tennessee, and later to Florence, Alabama. Elijah's duties were confined to the house and stables, and as a groom and valet he frequently accompanied his master on extended journeys to Georgia, Louisiana and elsewhere. In Alabama, Elijah married Maria White the property of neighboring plantation owner James Jackson."@en
  • "Henry Goings, the son of slave parents Abraham and Catharine Turner, was born in Virginia on the estate of James Walker, "within three miles of a place called Window Shades," (possibly the Windsor Shades plantation in New Kent County). His birth name was Elijah Turner. When Walker died, the slave family was broken up, and Elijah and one of his sisters were sold to the master's son-in-law, Pearson Pricket. Soon thereafter, the Prickets moved to Halifax, North Carolina, where Elijah was sold again, eventually becoming the property of Joseph Smith who renamed him Elijah Smith."@en

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