Henry Scott Escapes Slavery
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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There comes a time in early life when a slave becomes aware that he is a slave. And so it was with Henry Scott, a half-white child fathered by his master in Northern Virginia’s Fauquier County. Henry became acutely and painfully aware of his condition at age eight in about 1856—and vowed to escape. He made his break six years later.
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