Murray on contracts

Born a slave in North Carolina in 1826, William Mallory was sold to the LeBlanc family in Virginia as a boy. He was given to a son-in-law of Mr. LeBlanc's and became the slave of Susten Allen, a White House official. In 1860, Mallory escaped to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. When the Civil War broke out, he returned to the U.S. and joined the Union Army, eventually rising to the rank of Colonel. Mallory fought at Bull Run, Vicksburg, New Orleans and Gettysburg. After the war, Mallory returned to Canada and became a businessman and missionary to Africa. He was also quite involved in Canadian politics. The book includes a number of poems by Mallory, articles about him, and his descriptions of his father's capture and enslavement in Africa and his brother's actions in saving a burning church, St. Michael's Cathedral in Charleston, South Carolina.