Thirty Yrs Slave Bondage Free Author: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 pic... more »tures his experience in particular and slavery in general.« less