Slavery in Clover Bottoms: John McClines Narrative

by Jan Furman

Born into slavery on a Tennessee plantation, John McCline escaped from bondage, worked for the Union Army in the Civil War, and eventually found a new life in the American West. Slavery in the Clover Bottoms is his own story, recollected in later years, of his life as a slave and as a free man.

McCline's memoirs, completed in the 1920s and now published for the first time, vividly describe the James Hoggatt plantation in Davidson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572334533
• ISBN13: 9781572334533
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"