Born a Slave: Anthology
Firsthand Narratives of Bondage, Escape, Resistance, and the Black Freedom StruggleBy Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Prince, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Zamba Zembola, Solomon Bayley, William Grimes, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Emma Ray, Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Nicholas Said, George Henry, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, Venture Smith
Length618h
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Born a Slave: Anthology gathers a wide-ranging archive of testimony on enslavement, resistance, flight, family separation, literacy, religion, labor, and emancipation. Its selections move among autobiography, dictated narrative, spiritual reflection, political address, recollection, and abolitionist-inflected life writing, revealing both the formal variety and evidentiary force of Black testimony. Accounts of escape, self-emancipation, and the struggle to reclaim kinship stand beside narratives of bondage's daily violences, making the volume a significant entry point into the literary culture of slavery and antislavery. The contributors span generations, regions, genders, and circumstances, including formerly enslaved writers, lecturers, reformers, and witnesses whose narratives circulated through nineteenth-century print networks. Collectively, their voices illuminate the Black abolitionist tradition and the broader Atlantic history of slavery, while also registering distinct experiences of plantation labor, urban servitude, maritime worlds, migration, and Reconstruction. The anthology's breadth underscores how life writing became a crucial medium for contesting racial ideology and asserting intellectual, moral, and political agency. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking an accessible yet substantial encounter with enslaved people's own accounts. By placing many perspectives in dialogue, it invites comparative study of narrative strategy, historical memory, faith, gender, and freedom. Born a Slave offers both indispensable educational value and a compelling record of survival, resistance, and self-representation.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length618 hrs
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Publish dateFeb 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Abraham Lincoln – The True Story of a Great Life (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2NARRATIVES:
3Frederick Douglass:
4Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
5CHAPTER I
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6CHAPTER II
7CHAPTER III
8CHAPTER IV
9CHAPTER V
10CHAPTER VI
11CHAPTER VII
12CHAPTER VIII
13CHAPTER IX
14CHAPTER X
15CHAPTER XI
16Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
17INTRODUCTION
18FIRST PART
19CHAPTER I. AUTHOR'S BIRTH
20CHAPTER II. REMOVAL FROM GRANDMOTHER'S
21CHAPTER III. TROUBLES OF CHILDHOOD
22CHAPTER IV. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SLAVE PLANTATION
23CHAPTER V. A SLAVEHOLDER'S CHARACTER
24CHAPTER VI. A CHILD'S REASONING
25CHAPTER VII. LUXURIES AT THE GREAT HOUSE
26CHAPTER VIII. CHARACTERISTICS OF OVERSEERS
27CHAPTER IX. CHANGE OF LOCATION
28CHAPTER X. LEARNING TO READ
29CHAPTER XI. GROWING IN KNOWLEDGE
30CHAPTER XII. RELIGIOUS NATURE AWAKENED
31CHAPTER XIII. THE VICISSITUDES OF SLAVE LIFE
32CHAPTER XIV. EXPERIENCE IN ST. MICHAELS
33CHAPTER XV. COVEY, THE NEGRO BREAKER
34CHAPTER XVI. ANOTHER PRESSURE OF THE TYRANT'S VISE
35CHAPTER XVII. THE LAST FLOGGING
36CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES
37CHAPTER XIX. THE RUNAWAY PLOT
38CHAPTER XX
39CHAPTER XXI. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY
40SECOND PART
41CHAPTER I. ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY
42CHAPTER II. LIFE AS A FREEMAN
43CHAPTER III. INTRODUCED TO THE ABOLITIONISTS
44CHAPTER IV. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD FRIENDS
45CHAPTER V. ONE HUNDRED CONVENTIONS
46CHAPTER VI. IMPRESSIONS ABROAD
47CHAPTER VII. TRIUMPHS AND TRIALS
48CHAPTER VIII. JOHN BROWN AND MRS. STOWE
49CHAPTER IX. INCREASING DEMANDS OF THE SLAVE POWER
50CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
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