Louis Hughes

Thirty Years a Slave: from Bondage to Freedom (Dodo Press) Louis Hughes

Louis Hughes (1832-1913) was an American author and businessman. He was born as a slave in Virginia. At the age of six he was separated from his mother and was sold in a local Virginia slave market. He secretly learned to read and write and later published a remarkable autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (1897) which pictures his experience in particular and slavery in general.