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I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; the kidnapping of a white woman and her rescue by a slave; the nightmarish tortures of the infamous Mr. Gooch; the tragicomic experiences of a pair of "white slaves"; and the story of the "original Uncle Tom."--
Born A Slave
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Author : Marian Hoefnagel
language : en
Publisher: 14 - The Time of Your Life
Release Date : 2018-10
Born A Slave written by Marian Hoefnagel and has been published by 14 - The Time of Your Life this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10 with Slavery categories.
Their grandmother is a slave, their mother is a slave. And the 14 year-old twins Kwasi and Maisa are also slaves. In this this book, three generations talk about experiencing slavery as a teenager. Their stories are of misery, sorrow, and pain--but also of courage, love, and family.
I Was Born A Slave 1849 1866
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave 1849 1866 written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives.” They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narratives--such as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs--have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one with helpful introductions and annotations, to form the most comprehensive volume ever assembled on the lives and writings of the slaves. Volume one (1770-1849) includes the narratives of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), William Grimes, Nat Turner, Charles Ball, Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass, Lewis and Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, and Josiah Henson.
Born A Slave
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Author : The Federal Writers' Project
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-18
Born A Slave written by The Federal Writers' Project and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with categories.
BORN A SLAVE - Portraits of Ex-Slaves - An Introduction to the Slave Narratives From The Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.Fragments of the Narratives complimented with a Photograph of the ex-slave giving testimony of their days in bondage. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sponsored a Federal Writers' Project dedicated to chronicling the experience of slavery as remembered by former slaves. African-American men and women born into slavery were interviewed. Their stories were recorded and transcribed. Over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Writers' Project. These ex-slaves provided first-hand accounts of their experiences and knowledge of life on southern plantations. Their narratives remain a potent resource for understanding how America's slaves lived and died. These fragments of slave life offer a broad view of slavery in North America, allowing readers to explore and research areas of slavery such as work, sickness, punishments, resistance, escape, family life, food, marriage, relationships with masters, overseers and religious beliefs. Before the American Civil War, some authors wrote fictional accounts of slavery to create support for abolitionism. The prime example is Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The success of her novel and the social tensions of the time brought a response by white southern writers, such as William Gilmore Simms and Mary Eastman, who published what were called anti-Tom novels. Both kinds of novels were bestsellers in the 1850s. A total of about 600,000 enslaved people were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S, constituting 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas. The great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil. Some reports have estimated that close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. Slave and ex-slave narratives are important not only for what they tell us about African American history and literature, but also because they reveal to us the complexities of the dialogue between whites and blacks in this country in the last two centuries, particularly for African Americans. The Library of Congress offers its online collection of more than 2300 interview transcripts. The site also contains pictures and sound recordings related to the Federal Writers' Project. In total there are now 33 volumes of the slave narratives.Slave Narrative Volumes1. Alabama Narratives 2. Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 3. Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 4. Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 5. Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 6. Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 7. Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 8. Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 9. Florida Narratives 10. Georgia Narratives, Part 1 11. Georgia Narratives, Part 2 12. Georgia Narratives, Part 3 13. Georgia Narratives, Part 4 14. Indiana Narratives 15. Kansas Narratives 16. Kentucky Narratives 17. Maryland Narratives 18. Mississippi Narratives 19. Missouri Narratives 20. North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 21. North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 22. Ohio Narratives 23. Oklahoma Narratives 24. South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 25. South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 26. South Carolina Narratives, Part 3 27. South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 28. Tennessee Narratives 29. Texas Narratives, Part 1 30. Texas Narratives, Part 2 31. Texas Narratives, Part 3 32. Texas Narratives, Part 4 33. Virginia Narratives
I Was Born A Slave
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Author : Yuval Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
I Was Born A Slave written by Yuval Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with African Americans categories.
Born A Child Of Freedom Yet A Slave
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Author : Norrece T. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan
Release Date : 1990
Born A Child Of Freedom Yet A Slave written by Norrece T. Jones and has been published by Wesleyan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Social Science categories.
Born In Bondage
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Author : Marie Jenkins Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Born In Bondage written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with History categories.
Each time a child was born in bondage, the system of slavery began anew. Although raised by their parents or by surrogates in the slave community, children were ultimately subject to the rule of their owners. Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Despite the constant threats of separation and the necessity of submission to the slaveowner, slave families managed to pass on essential lessons about enduring bondage with human dignity. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control. Born in Bondage gives us an unsurpassed look at what it meant to grow up as a slave in the antebellum South. Schwartz recreates the experiences of these bound but resilient young people as they learned to negotiate between acts of submission and selfhood, between the worlds of commodity and community.
Life Of James Mars
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Author : James Mars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Life Of James Mars written by James Mars and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Slavery categories.
Born Slaves
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Author : Clifford Pond
language : en
Publisher: EP BOOKS
Release Date : 1984
Born Slaves written by Clifford Pond and has been published by EP BOOKS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
Born A Child Of Freedom Yet A Slave
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Author : Norrece T. Jones, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan
Release Date : 1991-02-01
Born A Child Of Freedom Yet A Slave written by Norrece T. Jones, Jr. and has been published by Wesleyan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Born a Child of Freedom, Yet a Slave explores the diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under control—from threats of sale, shackles, screw box, or treadmill, to a peck of corn a week, a dram of whiskey, a pound of tobacco, the bribe of freedom, and the promise of heaven. It explores also the counterdefensive strategies employed by the slaves to resist control—among them, arson, theft, poison, subterfuge, murder, escape, and rebellion. Norrece Jones, himself a descendent of South Carolina slaves, has written a powerful book based on intensive research in the archives of antebellum South Carolina. He has studied slave testimony, legal records, folklore, spirituals, autobiographies of whites and blacks, newspaper accounts, church records, and many other sources. He challenges views of slavery as an interdependent paternalistic system; he sees it instead as a harsh and unceasing conflict, with most slaves refusing to accept their masters’ dictates and most slave owners struggling to keep slaves servile and devoted. Means of control were both subtle and brutal. For example, there were festive holidays and gifts of liquor but also sadistic punishment: recalcitrant slaves—men and women alike— were staked to the ground or trussed from rafters with “nigger cord” to be whipped; some were branded; others were hanged or torched. Many of the same masters who provided a sick room for slaves also maintained a private jail. But of all the means of control, the most sinister and the most effective was the threat of sale and separation from family. Troublemakers were routinely sold. The weak, the sick, the malingering, the disobedient, the impudent, the “incorrigible” were disposed of on the block. Slaves often aided and abetted runaways, although some, in hope of favor, were informants—every antebellum conspiracy in South Carolina was betrayed. Yet self-respect and pride survived nonetheless. “You no holy,” slaves told one mistress, “We holy.”