The Slave Who Went to Congress
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In 1870 Benjamin Turner, who spent the first 40 years of his life as a slave, was elected to the US Congress. He was the first African American from Alabama to earn that distinction. In a recreation of his words, based on speeches and other writings, Marti Rosner and Frye Gaillard have crafted the story of a remarkable man.

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