100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume
Twenty-Eight Eyewitness Narratives of Slavery and FreedomBy Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Prince, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Booker T. Washington, Olaudah Equiano, Elizabeth Keckley, William Still, Sarah H. Bradford, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, L. S. Thompson, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Daniel Drayton, Thomas Clarkson, F. G. De Fontaine, John Dixon Long, Stephen Smith, Joseph Mountain, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown
Length224h 37m
About this audiobook
Gathering slave narratives, memoirs, depositions, travel accounts, and abolitionist documentation, *100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD* charts the lived realities and afterlives of Atlantic-world slavery. Its texts move between harrowing scenes of sale, labor, flight, family separation, literacy, resistance, and self-emancipation, while adopting forms as varied as spiritual testimony, legal witness, adventure narrative, and political indictment. Accounts of escape by ingenious means, public witnessing, and the pursuit of freedom give the volume particular dramatic and ethical force. The contributors include formerly enslaved writers, Black abolitionists, reformers, and allied documentarians whose perspectives span the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Figures associated with abolitionism, antislavery print culture, Reconstruction-era self-definition, and campaigns against racial violence place individual experience within broader struggles over citizenship, education, labor, and human rights. Their differing locations—across the Caribbean, the United States, and transatlantic circuits of reform—reveal slavery not as a single institution but as a system contested through memory, testimony, mobility, and collective action. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both an accessible introduction to slave narrative traditions and a capacious archive for sustained study. Read together, these works illuminate the formal ingenuity and historical authority of firsthand testimony while inviting comparison among gendered, regional, and political experiences. It offers a vital opportunity to encounter many voices in dialogue, strengthening historical understanding and ethical attention to freedom's unfinished meanings.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length224 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
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Publish dateFeb 12, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth (Annotated)
2Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass) (pt. 1)
3Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass) (pt. 2)
412 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) (pt. 1)
512 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) (pt. 2)
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612 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) (pt. 3)
712 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) (pt. 4)
8The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch)
9The Confessions of Nat Turner (Nat Turner)
10Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (Sojourner Truth) (pt. 1)
11Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (Sojourner Truth) (pt. 2)
12Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 1)
13Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 2)
14Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 3)
15Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 4)
16The History of Mary Prince (Mary Prince) (pt. 1)
17The History of Mary Prince (Mary Prince) (pt. 2)
18Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft) (pt. 1)
19Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William and Ellen Craft) (pt. 2)
20Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes) (pt. 1)
21Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Louis Hughes) (pt. 2)
22Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave (Jacob D. Green)
23Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) (pt. 1)
24Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) (pt. 2)
25Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) (pt. 3)
26Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) (pt. 4)
27The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano) (pt. 1)
28The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano) (pt. 2)
29The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano) (pt. 3)
30The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano) (pt. 4)
31Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 1)
32Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 2)
33Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 3)
34The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 1)
35The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 2)
36The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 3)
37The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 4)
38The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 5)
39The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 6)
40The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 7)
41The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 8)
42The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 9)
43The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 10)
44The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 11)
45The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 12)
46The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 13)
47The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 14)
48The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 15)
49The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 16)
50The Underground Railroad (William Still) (pt. 17)
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