Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

by Frederick DouglassHarriet Jacobs Booker T. Washington and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/02/2023

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E-artnow present the anthology of the most impactful slave narratives. The collection includes the memoirs, letters and biographies of former slaves, with the thousands of recorded interviews made in the South until 1970s: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Life and Times of Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet: The Moses of Her People Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery The Story of My Life and Work The Story of Slavery The Underground Railroad 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave The History of Mary Prince The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African King (Zamba Zembola) A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft) Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper Narrative of Henry Watson - A Fugitive Slave Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life Sufferingsand Escape of John Brown The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman, a Narrative of Real Life The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina (John Andrew Jackson) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch) The Confessions of Nat Turner (Nat Turner) Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes) Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave (Jacob D. Green) Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself (Henry Bibb) The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave The House of Bondage (Octavia Albert) The Story of Mattie J. Jackson The Fugitive Blacksmith (James W. C. Pennington) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney) Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam (John Gabriel Stedman) Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box, Written by Himself (Henry Box Brown) Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell) Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) For a Quarter of a Century. Life of William Walker (Thomas S. Gaines) Autobiography of James L. Smith Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro The Kidnapped and the Ransomed (Peter Still) Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray) Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton) Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (by Nina Hill Robinson) The Autobiography of Nicholas Said Life of George Henry Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of Charles Ball Josiah: The Maimed Fugitive Bond and Free (Israel Campbell) Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke My Slave Life – In Virginia and Kentucky (Francis Fedric) Buried Alive: Behind Prison Walls For a Quarter of a Century (William Walker) Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life (Isaac D. Williams) A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith The Life History and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea A Narrative of the Life and Laborsof the Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Joseph Vance Lewis)

ISBN:
4064066459444
4064066459444
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-02-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
e-artnow
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland, 1818. He was separated from his mother as a baby and lived with his grandmother up to the age of eight, when he was sent to live as a house servant, a field hand and then a ship caulker. He escaped to New York in 1838 and seven years later published Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an autobiography of his life as a slave, which became an instant bestseller.

Douglass rose to fame as a powerful orator and spent the rest of his life campaigning for equality. He became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, a consultant to Abraham Lincoln in the civil rights movement and a passionate supporter of the women’s rights movement. He died in 1895.

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup was born a free man in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1808. He lived as such until 1841 when, attracted by a job offer, he travelled to Washington, DC, where he was drugged and sold into slavery by his supposed employers.

Northup was enslaved for twelve years before he regained his freedom and returned to New York. There, he became an advocate for abolitionism and in the 1860s began helping fugitive slaves via the Underground Railroad.

Northup is believed to have died between 1863 and 1875, but both the date and circumstances of his death are unknown.

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth (c.1797 - 1883) was born into slavery in New York State. In 1826, she escaped with her young daughter, leaving two of her other children behind. When her son was later illegally sold to a slave owner in Alabama she sued for his return, becoming one of the first black women to successfully challenge a white man in an American court. She spent the rest of her life campaigning for abolition, equal rights and universal suffrage, and found fame as a reformer and public speaker. Her memoir, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, is published in Penguin Classics.

John Thompson

John Thompson is a historian who worked at the National Library of Australia for many years, and the author of The Patrician and the Bloke: Geoffrey Serle and the Making of Australian History.

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