The Testimonies Of Slaves
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The Testimonies Of Slaves
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Author : Work Projects Administration
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-15
The Testimonies Of Slaves written by Work Projects Administration and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Social Science categories.
DigiCat presents to you this meticulously collection of hundreds of life stories, recorded interviews and incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from the American southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia
Slave Testimony
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Author : John W. Blassingame
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1977-06-01
Slave Testimony written by John W. Blassingame and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader
The Testimony Of God Against Slavery
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Author : La Roy Sunderland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
The Testimony Of God Against Slavery written by La Roy Sunderland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Antislavery movements categories.
The Testimony Of God Against Slavery
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Author : La Roy Sunderland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Testimony Of God Against Slavery written by La Roy Sunderland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Slavery categories.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
American Slavery As It Is written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African Americans categories.
Provides the testimonies of ex-slaves describing the social conditions of slaves in the South.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2017-10-26
American Slavery As It Is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with Literary Collections categories.
The stories of hundreds of African Americans who lived in bondage are preserved in this powerful 1839 chronicle. Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, the accounts include personal narratives from freed slaves as well as testimonials from active and former slave owners, presenting a condemnation of slavery from both those who experienced it and those who perpetuated it. Detailing the overall conditions of slaves across multiple states and several years, the book includes information on their diet, clothing, housing, and working hours as well as their punishments and suffering. Connecticut farmer-turned-abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld (1803–1895) was a central leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society and traveled the country lecturing against slavery. Weld took great pains to document the trustworthiness of contributors to American Slavery so that there could be no doubt as to its authenticity. A major influence on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book sold 100,000 copies in its first year of publication and remains a valuable historical testament. This edited selection presents these powerful first-person accounts to a new generation.
American Slavery As It Is Testimonies
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Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-11
American Slavery As It Is Testimonies written by Theodore Dwight Weld and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "American Slavery As It Is" is a book composed of first-hand accounts of slavery and its horrors. The work focuses on the afflictions that slaves faced, covering their diet, clothing, housing, and working conditions. Harriet Beecher Stowe used "American Slavery As It Is" as the direct inspiration for her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Hearing Enslaved Voices
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Author : Sophie White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Hearing Enslaved Voices written by Sophie White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony, and interrogates how such narratives were produced, the societies (both those that were majority slave societies and those in which slaves were a distinct minority of the population) in which testimony was permitted, and the meanings that can be attached to such narratives. The chapters in this book provide valuable information about the everyday lives—including the inner and spiritual lives—of enslaved African American and Native American individuals in the British and French Atlantic World, from Canada to the Caribbean. It explores slave testimony as a form of autobiographical narrative, and in ways that allow us to foreground enslaved persons’ lived experience as expressed in their own words.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
American Slavery As It Is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with Enslaved persons categories.
American Slavery As It Is
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Author : Theodore Dwight Weld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-16
American Slavery As It Is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict. The question at issue is not one of law, but of fact - "What is the actual condition of the slaves in the United States?" A plainer case never went to a jury. Look at it. Twenty-seven hundred thousand persons in this country, men, women, and children, are in slavery. Is slavery, as a condition for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent? We submit the question without argument. You have common sense, and conscience, and a human heart; - pronounce upon it. You have a wife, or a husband, a child, a father, a mother, a brother or a sister - make the case your own, make it theirs, and bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights against Slavery has been adjudicated in the court of conscience times innumerable. The same verdict has always been rendered - "Guilty;" the same sentence has always been pronounced, "Let it be accursed;" and human nature, with her million echoes, has rung it round the world in every language under heaven, "Let it be accursed. Let it be accursed." His heart is false to human nature, who will not say "Amen." There is not a man on earth who does not believe that slavery is a curse. Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to herself. She has uttered her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever since the monster was begotten; and till it perishes amidst the execrations of the universe, she will traverse the world on its track, dealing her bolts upon its head, and dashing against it her condemning brand. We repeat it, every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart. Try him; clank the chains in his ears, and tell him they are for him. Give him an hour to prepare his wife and children for a life of slavery. Bid him make haste and get ready their necks for the yoke, and their wrists for the coffle chains, then look at his pale lips and trembling knees, and you have nature's testimony against slavery. Two millions seven hundred thousand persons in these States are in this condition. They were made slaves and are held such by force, and by being put in fear, and this for no crime! Reader, what have you to say of such treatment? Is it right, just, benevolent? Suppose I should seize you, rob you of your liberty, drive you into the field, and make you work without pay as long as you live, would that be justice and kindness, or monstrous injustice and cruelty? Now, every body knows that the slaveholders do these things to the slaves every day, and yet it is stoutly affirmed that they treat them well and kindly, and that their tender regard for their slaves restrains the masters from inflicting cruelties upon them. We shall go into no metaphysics to show the absurdity of this pretence. The man who robs you every day, is, forsooth, quite too tender-hearted ever to cuff or kick you! True, he can snatch your money, but he does it gently lest he should hurt you. He can empty your pockets without qualms, but if your stomach is empty, it cuts him to the quick. He can make you work a life time without pay, but loves you too well to let you go hungry. He fleeces you of your rights with a relish, but is shocked if you work bareheaded in summer, or in winter without warm stockings. He can make you go without your liberty, but never without a shirt. He can crush, in you, all hope of bettering your condition, by vowing that you shall die his slave, but though he can coolly torture your feelings, he is too compassionate to lacerate your back - he can break your heart, but he is very tender of your skin. He can strip you of all protection and thus expose you to all outrages, but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels!