BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume)
Seventeen Voices of Enslavement and FreedomBy Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, 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, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Length133h 5m
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BREAKING THE CHAINS gathers slave narratives, testimonies, autobiographical writings, and abolitionist texts into a resonant archive of resistance. Ranging from searing accounts of bondage and escape to speeches, recollections, and reformist argument, the volume illuminates slavery's violence alongside the intellectual, spiritual, and practical means by which enslaved people contested it. Standout narratives of flight, self-emancipation, family separation, literacy, and political awakening reveal the genre's power to transform lived experience into moral indictment. Its voices span the Atlantic world and nineteenth-century antislavery culture: people born into slavery, fugitives, activists, lecturers, community organizers, and literary allies. Together, these writers helped shape abolitionism's public language, placing Black testimony at the center of debates over citizenship, race, gender, religion, and freedom. The inclusion of texts associated with reform networks and later Reconstruction-era reflection also traces slavery's afterlives; readers should approach the purported Willie Lynch material critically, given its disputed historical provenance. This capacious anthology is especially valuable for students and general readers seeking to encounter slavery through a multiplicity of firsthand and closely allied perspectives. Its diverse forms invite comparison across gender, geography, and political strategy, while its collective force demonstrates how narrative became evidence, advocacy, and cultural memory. Readers will find both an accessible introduction to the slave-narrative tradition and a rich basis for sustained historical and literary inquiry.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length133 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prentice Mulford: Life by Land and Sea, The Californian's Return - Twenty Years From Home (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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