Me And My Slaves
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Me And My Slaves
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Author : Shaun O'Driscoll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Me And My Slaves written by Shaun O'Driscoll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Male prostitution categories.
The Life Of A Slave Girl
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Author : Harriet Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: BookRix
Release Date : 2019-05-22
The Life Of A Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs and has been published by BookRix this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-22 with History categories.
I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to work at his trade, and manage his own affairs. His strongest wish was to purchase his children; but, though he several times offered his hard earnings for that purpose, he never succeeded. In complexion my parents were a light shade of brownish yellow, and were termed mulattoes. They lived together in a comfortable home; and, though we were all slaves, I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment. I had one brother, William, who was two years younger than myself—a bright, affectionate child. Such were the unusually fortunate circumstances of my early childhood. When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave. My mother's mistress was the daughter of my grandmother's mistress. She was the foster sister of my mother; they were both nourished at my grandmother's breast. In fact, my mother had been weaned at three months old, that the babe of the mistress might obtain sufficient food. They played together as children; and, when they became women, my mother was a most faithful servant to her whiter foster sister. On her death-bed her mistress promised that her children should never suffer for any thing; and during her lifetime she kept her word. They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly. Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage. I and my children are now free! We are as free from the power of slaveholders as are the white people of the north; and though that, according to my ideas, is not saying a great deal, it is a vast improvement in my condition. The dream of my life is not yet realized. I do not sit with my children in a home of my own, I still long for a hearthstone of my own, however humble. I wish it for my children's sake far more than for my own. But God so orders circumstances as to keep me with my friend Mrs. Bruce. Love, duty, gratitude, also bind me to her side. It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children. It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with those gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light, fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea.
Help Me To Find My People
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Author : Heather Andrea Williams
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Help Me To Find My People written by Heather Andrea Williams and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Social Science categories.
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
Slavery By Another Name
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Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2012-10-04
Slavery By Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Social Science categories.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
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Author : Joy DeGruy
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-05-23
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome written by Joy DeGruy and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-23 with History categories.
From acclaimed author and researcher Dr. Joy DeGruy comes this fascinating book that explores the psychological and emotional impact on African Americans after enduring the horrific Middle Passage, over 300 years of slavery, followed by continued discrimination. From the beginning of American chattel slavery in the 1500’s, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, Dr. Joy DeGruy asked the question, “Isn’t it likely those enslaved were severely traumatized? Furthermore, did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?” Emancipation was followed by another hundred years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage and convict leasing, and domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in further unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas visited upon generation after generation of a people produce? What are the impacts of the ordeals associated with chattel slavery, and with the institutions that followed, on African Americans today? Dr. DeGruy answers these questions and more as she encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and emotions through the lens of history. By doing so, she argues they will gain a greater understanding of the impact centuries of slavery and oppression has had on African Americans. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome is an important read for all Americans, as the institution of slavery has had an impact on every race and culture. “A masterwork. [DeGruy’s] deep understanding, critical analysis, and determination to illuminate core truths are essential to addressing the long-lived devastation of slavery. Her book is the balm we need to heal ourselves and our relationships. It is a gift of wholeness.”—Susan Taylor, former Editorial Director of Essence magazine
Fifty Years In Chains Or The Life Of An American Slave
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Author : Charles Ball
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Fifty Years In Chains Or The Life Of An American Slave written by Charles Ball and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with categories.
My story is a true one, and I shall tell it in a simple style. It will be merely a recital of my life as a slave in the Southern States of the Union - a description of negro slavery in the "model Republic." My grandfather was brought from Africa and sold as a slave in Calvert county, in Maryland. I never understood the name of the ship in which he was imported, nor the name of the planter who bought him on his arrival, but at the time I knew him he was a slave in a family called Maud, who resided near Leonardtown. My father was a slave in a family named Hauty, living near the same place. My mother was the slave of a tobacco planter, who died when I was about four years old. My mother had several children, and they were sold upon master's death to separate purchasers. She was sold, my father told me, to a Georgia trader. I, of all her children, was the only one left in Maryland. When sold I was naked, never having had on clothes in my life, but my new master gave me a child's frock, belonging to one of his own children. After he had purchased me, he dressed me in this garment, took me before him on his horse, and started home; but my poor mother, when she saw me leaving her for the last time, ran after me, took me down from the horse, clasped me in her arms, and wept loudly and bitterly over me. My master seemed to pity her; and endeavored to soothe her distress by telling her that he would be a good master to me, and that I should not want anything. She then, still holding me in her arms, walked along the road beside the horse as he moved slowly, and earnestly and imploringly besought my master to buy her and the rest of her children, and not permit them to be carried away by the negro buyers; but whilst thus entreating him to save her and her family, the slave-driver, who had first bought her, came running in pursuit of her with a raw-hide in his hand. When he overtook us, he told her he was her master now, and ordered her to give that little negro to its owner, and come back with him. My mother then turned to him and cried, "Oh, master, do not take me from my child!" Without making any reply, he gave her two or three heavy blows on the shoulders with his raw-hide, snatched me from her arms, handed me to my master, and seizing her by one arm, dragged her back towards the place of sale. My master then quickened the pace of his horse; and as we advanced, the cries of my poor parent became more and more indistinct - at length they died away in the distance, and I never again heard the voice of my poor mother. Young as I was, the horrors of that day sank deeply into my heart, and even at this time, though half a century has elapsed, the terrors of the scene return with painful vividness upon my memory. Frightened at the sight of the cruelties inflicted upon my poor mother, I forgot my own sorrows at parting from her and clung to my new master, as an angel and a saviour, when compared with the hardened fiend into whose power she had fallen. She had been a kind and good mother to me; had warmed me in her bosom in the cold nights of winter; and had often divided the scanty pittance of food allowed her by her mistress, between my brothers, and sisters, and me, and gone supperless to bed herself. Whatever victuals she could obtain beyond the coarse food, salt fish and corn bread, allowed to slaves on the Patuxent and Potomac rivers, she carefully, distributed among her children, and treated us with all the tenderness which her own miserable condition would permit. I have no doubt that she was chained and driven to Carolina, and toiled out the residue of a forlorn and famished existence in the rice swamps, or indigo fields of the South.
Big Little Man
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Author : Alex Tizon
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014
Big Little Man written by Alex Tizon and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A journalist presents an intimate assessment of the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian-American male that traces his own experiences as an immigrant under the constraints of American cultural stereotypes.
Thirty Years A Slave
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Author : Louis Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-10-29
Thirty Years A Slave written by Louis Hughes and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with categories.
The classic autobiography of Louis Hughes, retelling his life as a slave in the American South. Topics covered include:Life On A Cotton Plantation, Birth-Sold In A Richmond Slave Pen, A Slave Market, Slave Whipping As A Business, Sold In The Market, On The Auction Block Price Of Slaves, Started For A Cotton Plantation, My Mississippi Home, Plantation Life, The Great House, House Servant And Errand Boy, Cruel Treatment, Instructions In Medicine, The Overseer-Whippings And Other Cruelties, The Slave Cabin, Cotton Raising, The Cotton Worm, The Cotton Harvest, Preparing Cotton For Market, Other Farm Products, Farm Implements, The Clearing Of New Land, Cooking For The Slaves, Carding And Spinning, Weaving-Clothes Of The Slaves, Slave Mothers-Care Of The Children, Methods Of Punishment, Fourth Of July Barbecue, Attendance At Church, Religious Meetings Of The Slaves, A Neighborhood Quarrel Social And Other Aspects Of Slavery, Removal To Memphis, Tennessee, A New And Splendid House, The New Style Of Living, The Adornment Of The Grounds, The Garden, Profusion Of Flowers, The Fruit Orchard, I Practice Medicine Among The Slaves, A Swell Reception, Relatives Visit At The Mansion, One Of The Visitors Distrusts Me, The Madam In A Rage, The Madam's Severity, A Shocking Accident, Master's New Cotton Plantation, Incidents, Longing For Freedom, My First Break For Freedom, My Second Runaway Trip, Preaching To The Slaves, A Family Of Free Persons Sold Into Slavery, My Marriage-Birth Of Twins, Madam's Cruelty To My Wife And Children, Efforts To Learn To Read And Write, Tom Strikes For Liberty And Gains It, News Of Tom's Reaching Canada, M'gee Expects To Capture Tom, Making Clothes, A Superstition, Memphis And Its Commercial Importance, Slavery And The War Of The Rebellion, Beginning Of The War, Petty Disrespect To The Emblem Of The Union, The Battle Of Shiloh, April , , Mourning In Master's Family, Alarm Of The Memphis Rebels, The Family Flee From Memphis, I Am Taken To Bolivar Farm, Capture Of A Union Trading Boat, Boss Taken Prisoner, My Third Effort For Freedom, Rebels Burn Their Cotton, My Fourth Runaway Trip, Incidents, Union Raid At Master's Farm, Union Soldiers Pass The Panola Home, Hiding Valuables From The Yankees, Death To Runaway Slaves, Slaves Hung And Left To Rot As A Warning, Runaway Slave Caught And Whipped, A Home Guard Accidentally Shoots Himself, Substitutes For Coffee, Rebellion Weakening-Slaves' Hopes Strengthening, M'gees Slaves Taken To Alabama, M'gee's Great Scheme, M'gee's Death, I Make Some Money, Going Back To Panola, Incidents, My Fifth Strike For Freedom Is A Success, Going Back For Our Wives, A Hazardous Trip, Two Brave Men, Out Of Bondage At Last, A Word For My Old Master, Freedom After Slavery, Coming North, In Canada, A Clew To My Brother William, Work In Chicago, Attending Night School, I Settle In Milwaukee, Begin Business For Myself In A Small Way, Meeting Relatives Of My Old Master, Finding My Brother William, Growth Of The Laundry Business, Employed As A Nurse, A Trip South, and I Make Nursing My Regular Business.
My Bondage And My Freedom
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Author : Frederick Douglass
language : en
Publisher: 谷月社
Release Date : 2015-11-17
My Bondage And My Freedom written by Frederick Douglass and has been published by 谷月社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words—TOO LATE. The nature and character of slavery have been subjects of an almost endless variety of artistic representation; and after the brilliant achievements in that field, and while those achievements are yet fresh in the memory of the million, he who would add another to the legion, must possess the charm of transcendent excellence, or apologize for something worse than rashness. The reader is, therefore, assured, with all due promptitude, that his attention is not invited to a work of ART, but to a work of FACTS—Facts, terrible and almost incredible, it may be yet FACTS, nevertheless. I am authorized to say that there is not a fictitious name nor place in the whole volume; but that names and places are literally given, and that every transaction therein described actually transpired. Perhaps the best Preface to this volume is furnished in the following letter of Mr. Douglass, written in answer to my urgent solicitation for such a work: ROCHESTER, N. Y. July 2, 1855. DEAR FRIEND: I have long entertained, as you very well know, a somewhat positive repugnance to writing or speaking anything for the public, which could, with any degree of plausibilty, make me liable to the imputation of seeking personal notoriety, for its own sake. Entertaining that feeling very sincerely, and permitting its control, perhaps, quite unreasonably, I have often refused to narrate my personal experience in public anti-slavery meetings, and in sympathizing circles, when urged to do so by friends, with whose views and wishes, ordinarily, it were a pleasure to comply. In my letters and speeches, I have generally aimed to discuss the question of Slavery in the light of fundamental principles, and upon facts, notorious and open to all; making, I trust, no more of the fact of my own former enslavement, than circumstances seemed absolutely to require. I have never placed my opposition to slavery on a basis so narrow as my own enslavement, but rather upon the indestructible and unchangeable laws of human nature, every one of which is perpetually and flagrantly violated by the slave system. I have also felt that it was best for those having histories worth the writing—or supposed to be so—to commit such work to hands other than their own. To write of one's self, in such a manner as not to incur the imputation of weakness, vanity, and egotism, is a work within the ability of but few; and I have little reason to believe that I belong to that fortunate few. These considerations caused me to hesitate, when first you kindly urged me to prepare for publication a full account of my life as a slave, and my life as a freeman. Nevertheless, I see, with you, many reasons for regarding my autobiography as exceptional in its character, and as being, in some sense, naturally beyond the reach of those reproaches which honorable and sensitive minds dislike to incur. It is not to illustrate any heroic achievements of a man, but to vindicate a just and beneficent principle, in its application to the whole human family, by letting in the light of truth upon a system, esteemed by some as a blessing, and by others as a curse and a crime. I agree with you, that this system is now at the bar of public opinion—not only of this country, but of the whole civilized world—for judgment. Its friends have made for it the usual plea—"not guilty;" the case must, therefore, proceed. Any facts, either from slaves, slaveholders, or by-standers, calculated to enlighten the public mind, by revealing the true nature, character, and tendency of the slave system, are in order, and can scarcely be innocently withheld. I see, too, that there are special reasons why I should write my own biography, in preference to employing another to do it. Not only is slavery on trial, but unfortunately, the enslaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior; that they are so low in the scale of humanity, and so utterly stupid, that they are unconscious of their wrongs, and do not apprehend their rights. Looking, then, at your request, from this stand-point, and wishing everything of which you think me capable to go to the benefit of my afflicted people, I part with my doubts and hesitation, and proceed to furnish you the desired manuscript; hoping that you may be able to make such arrangements for its publication as shall be best adapted to accomplish that good which you so enthusiastically anticipate.
My Wife My Slave Part I
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Author : Vilmont Grace (author)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
My Wife My Slave Part I written by Vilmont Grace (author) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with categories.