Wallace Turnage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWallace Turnage
American writer
Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1846
Place of Birth: Snow Hill, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1916
Profession: autobiographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Wallace Turnage
- Wallace Turnage (1846 – 1916) was an escaped slave who wrote a narrative that was published. He was born in North Carolina, and was the son of a fifteen-year-old slave and a white man.
- He was sold multiple times and made repeated attempts to run away, and succeeded.
- He lived in New York and New Jersey, working as a waiter, janitor, glass blower and finally as a watchman.His manuscript was passed on to his daughter, Lydia Turnage Connolly (1885 – 1984).
- After her death, it was another 20 years before it was published.
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