Henry Clay Bruce was the author of The New Man: Twenty-nine Years a Slave and Twenty-nine Years a Free Man. He was also the brother of the first black U.S. Senator Blanche K. Bruce. Bruce was born into slavery in Virginia to parents owned by Lemuel Bruce. He spent the first years of his life in […]

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