Born a slave Fredericksburg, Virginia. He escaped and served in the Union Army. In his later years he moved to Cohasset to live with his son at 312 Main Street.∼John Washington (?-1918) Former Slave, Diarist.
Biography:
Randy Kennedy writes in the New York Times on June 14, 2004: "The Washington narrative was kept for many years by his granddaughter, Evelyn Washington Easterly, who briefly gave it to the Library of Congress in 1976. Before she died Mrs. Easterly gave it to a close friend, Alice Jackson Stuart, a college English professor who intended to publish it herself and spent some time at Harvard in the mid-1980's doing research related to it. But Professor Stuart died in 2001 with her work unfinished. The narrative then went to her son, Julian T. Houston, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, who lent it to the Massachusetts Historical Society for safekeeping. Judge Houston, who writes fiction, later talked to his agent, Wendy Strothman, about the narrative. Late last year she helped find Dr. Blight, who has written extensively on slavery and was recently chosen to direct the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale." Randy Kennedy in The New York Times on June 20, 2004 writes: John Washington tells of learning to read and of seeing slaves being sold to plantations in states south of Virginia, where he spent all of his years in slavery. "At about 4 years of age Mother learned me the alphabet from the 'New York Primer' I was kept at my lessons an hour or Two each night by my mother: My first Great Sorrow was caused by seeing one morning, a number of 'Plantation Hands,' formed into lone line, with little Bundles strapped to their backs, Men Women, and children. and all marched off to be Sold South away from all that was near and dear to them. Parents, wives husbands and children; all separated one from another perhaps never to meet again on earth. I shall never forget the weeping that morning among those that were left behind each one Expecting to go next."
Biography:
Randy Kennedy writes in the New York Times on June 14, 2004: "The Washington narrative was kept for many years by his granddaughter, Evelyn Washington Easterly, who briefly gave it to the Library of Congress in 1976. Before she died Mrs. Easterly gave it to a close friend, Alice Jackson Stuart, a college English professor who intended to publish it herself and spent some time at Harvard in the mid-1980's doing research related to it. But Professor Stuart died in 2001 with her work unfinished. The narrative then went to her son, Julian T. Houston, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, who lent it to the Massachusetts Historical Society for safekeeping. Judge Houston, who writes fiction, later talked to his agent, Wendy Strothman, about the narrative. Late last year she helped find Dr. Blight, who has written extensively on slavery and was recently chosen to direct the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale." Randy Kennedy in The New York Times on June 20, 2004 writes: John Washington tells of learning to read and of seeing slaves being sold to plantations in states south of Virginia, where he spent all of his years in slavery. "At about 4 years of age Mother learned me the alphabet from the 'New York Primer' I was kept at my lessons an hour or Two each night by my mother: My first Great Sorrow was caused by seeing one morning, a number of 'Plantation Hands,' formed into lone line, with little Bundles strapped to their backs, Men Women, and children. and all marched off to be Sold South away from all that was near and dear to them. Parents, wives husbands and children; all separated one from another perhaps never to meet again on earth. I shall never forget the weeping that morning among those that were left behind each one Expecting to go next."
Born a slave Fredericksburg, Virginia. He escaped and served in the Union Army. In his later years he moved to Cohasset to live with his son at 312 Main Street.∼John Washington (?-1918) Former Slave, Diarist.
Biography:
Randy Kennedy writes in the New York Times on June 14, 2004: "The Washington narrative was kept for many years by his granddaughter, Evelyn Washington Easterly, who briefly gave it to the Library of Congress in 1976. Before she died Mrs. Easterly gave it to a close friend, Alice Jackson Stuart, a college English professor who intended to publish it herself and spent some time at Harvard in the mid-1980's doing research related to it. But Professor Stuart died in 2001 with her work unfinished. The narrative then went to her son, Julian T. Houston, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, who lent it to the Massachusetts Historical Society for safekeeping. Judge Houston, who writes fiction, later talked to his agent, Wendy Strothman, about the narrative. Late last year she helped find Dr. Blight, who has written extensively on slavery and was recently chosen to direct the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale." Randy Kennedy in The New York Times on June 20, 2004 writes: John Washington tells of learning to read and of seeing slaves being sold to plantations in states south of Virginia, where he spent all of his years in slavery. "At about 4 years of age Mother learned me the alphabet from the 'New York Primer' I was kept at my lessons an hour or Two each night by my mother: My first Great Sorrow was caused by seeing one morning, a number of 'Plantation Hands,' formed into lone line, with little Bundles strapped to their backs, Men Women, and children. and all marched off to be Sold South away from all that was near and dear to them. Parents, wives husbands and children; all separated one from another perhaps never to meet again on earth. I shall never forget the weeping that morning among those that were left behind each one Expecting to go next."
Biography:
Randy Kennedy writes in the New York Times on June 14, 2004: "The Washington narrative was kept for many years by his granddaughter, Evelyn Washington Easterly, who briefly gave it to the Library of Congress in 1976. Before she died Mrs. Easterly gave it to a close friend, Alice Jackson Stuart, a college English professor who intended to publish it herself and spent some time at Harvard in the mid-1980's doing research related to it. But Professor Stuart died in 2001 with her work unfinished. The narrative then went to her son, Julian T. Houston, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, who lent it to the Massachusetts Historical Society for safekeeping. Judge Houston, who writes fiction, later talked to his agent, Wendy Strothman, about the narrative. Late last year she helped find Dr. Blight, who has written extensively on slavery and was recently chosen to direct the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale." Randy Kennedy in The New York Times on June 20, 2004 writes: John Washington tells of learning to read and of seeing slaves being sold to plantations in states south of Virginia, where he spent all of his years in slavery. "At about 4 years of age Mother learned me the alphabet from the 'New York Primer' I was kept at my lessons an hour or Two each night by my mother: My first Great Sorrow was caused by seeing one morning, a number of 'Plantation Hands,' formed into lone line, with little Bundles strapped to their backs, Men Women, and children. and all marched off to be Sold South away from all that was near and dear to them. Parents, wives husbands and children; all separated one from another perhaps never to meet again on earth. I shall never forget the weeping that morning among those that were left behind each one Expecting to go next."
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