Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, Or, The Story of My Life on Three Continents is a meditation on what freedom demands after emancipation. Born enslaved in Virginia, Thomas Lewis Johnson survived twenty-eight years of captivity before forging an improbable life that carried him across North America, Great Britain, and West Africa. Published in 1909 and largely forgotten since, Johnson’s memoir is at once a slave narrative, a missionary autobiography, a travel account, and a stunning scrapbook of a life lived in motion.

 Come join for a free public talk at 3pm on Tuesday, November 17th in the Byrnes Room in the Clemson Unviersity library