Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Length25h 16m
About this audiobook
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was ultimately less popular. Dred, the titular character, is one of the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, escaped slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp, preaching angry and violent retribution for the evils of slavery and rescuing escapees from the dog of the slavecatchers. The response to Stowe's first work greatly impacted her second anti-slavery novel. Uncle Tom's Cabin drew criticism from abolitionists and African-American authors for the passive martyrdom of Uncle Tom and endorsement of colonization as the solution to slavery. Dred, by contrast, introduces a black revolutionary character who is presented as an heir to the American revolution rather than a problem to be expatriated. Dred can thus be placed within an African-American literary tradition as well as a political revision of the sentimental novel (see David Walker's Appeal (1829) and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave (1852)). The novel is also interesting in the historical context of runaway slave communities surviving for a long time in swamp areas. Swamps were places where runaway slaves could hide, and therefore became a taboo subject, particularly in the south. The best hiding places were found on high ground in swampy areas. (Amazon)
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Literary Classics
Length25 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE.
2CHAPTER I. THE MISTRESS OF CANEMA.
3CHAPTER II. CLAYTON.
4CHAPTER III. THE CLAYTON FAMILY AND SISTER ANNE.
5CHAPTER IV. THE GORDON FAMILY.
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6CHAPTER V. HARRY AND HIS WIFE.
7CHAPTER VI. THE DILEMMA.
8CHAPTER VII. CONSULTATION.
9CHAPTER VIII. OLD TIFF.
10CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH.
11CHAPTER X. THE PREPARATION.
12CHAPTER XI. THE LOVERS.
13CHAPTER XII. EXPLANATIONS.
14CHAPTER XIII. TOM GORDON.
15CHAPTER XIV. AUNT NESBIT'S LOSS.
16CHAPTER XV. MR. JEKYL'S OPINIONS.
17CHAPTER XVI. MILLY'S STORY.
18CHAPTER XVII. UNCLE JOHN.
19CHAPTER XVIII. DRED.
20CHAPTER XIX. THE CONSPIRATORS.
21CHAPTER XX. SUMMER TALK AT CANEMA.
22CHAPTER XXI. TIFF'S PREPARATIONS.
23CHAPTER XXII. THE WORSHIPPERS.
24CHAPTER XXIII. THE CAMP-MEETING.
25CHAPTER XXIV. LIFE IN THE SWAMPS.
26CHAPTER XXV. MORE SUMMER TALK.
27CHAPTER XXVI. MILLY'S RETURN.
28CHAPTER XXVII. THE TRIAL.
29CHAPTER XXVIII. MAGNOLIA GROVE.
30CHAPTER XXIX. THE TROUBADOUR.
31CHAPTER XXX. TIFF'S GARDEN.
32CHAPTER XXXI. THE WARNING.
33CHAPTER XXXII. THE MORNING STAR.
34CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LEGAL DECISION.
35CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CLOUD BURSTS.
36CHAPTER XXXV. THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS.
37CHAPTER XXXVI. THE EVENING STAR.
38CHAPTER XXXVII. THE TIE BREAKS.
39CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE PURPOSE.
40CHAPTER XXXIX. THE NEW MOTHER.
41CHAPTER XL. THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.
42CHAPTER XLI. THE CLERICAL CONFERENCE.
43CHAPTER XLII. THE RESULT.
44CHAPTER XLIII. THE SLAVE'S ARGUMENT.
45CHAPTER XLIV. THE DESERT.
46CHAPTER XLV. JEGAR SAHADUTHA.
47CHAPTER XLVI. FRANK RUSSEL'S OPINIONS.
48CHAPTER XLVII. TOM GORDON'S PLANS.
49CHAPTER XLVIII. LYNCH LAW.
50CHAPTER XLIX. MORE VIOLENCE.
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