Never Forgotten, Never Could be
Slave Narratives, Abolitionist Testimony, and the Atlantic Struggle for FreedomBy Thomas Clarkson, Daniel Drayton, Louis Hughes, Lydia Maria Child, Austin Steward, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Moses Grandy, William Wells Brown, William Still, Nat Turner, Henry Bibb, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Kate Drumgoold, Frederick Douglass, Brantz Mayer, Theodore Canot, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Charles Ball, Solomon Northup, Josiah Henson, Stephen Smith, Ellen Craft, William Craft, John Gabriel Stedman, Sarah H. Bradford, Lucy A. Delaney, L. S. Thompson, F. G. De Fontaine, Henry Box Brown, John Dixon Long, Harriet Jacobs, Jacob D. Green, Thomas S. Gaines, Willie Lynch, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Joseph Mountain
Length223h 56m
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Never Forgotten, Never Could be gathers testimonies, memoirs, abolitionist writings, and documentary narratives that confront slavery's violence while preserving the intellectual, spiritual, and political lives of those who endured and opposed it. Moving between firsthand witness, antislavery polemic, travel account, and recollection, the collection situates individual survival within the larger history of the Atlantic slave system. Its most powerful passages render bondage, escape, family separation, resistance, and self-emancipation in voices of striking formal and emotional range. The contributors include formerly enslaved people, Black activists, abolitionist advocates, and observers whose writings emerged from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. Together, they illuminate the literary culture of abolition, the tradition of the slave narrative, and the continuing struggle over historical memory. Women's accounts of domestic exploitation and sexual vulnerability stand alongside narratives of flight, legal contestation, education, religious conviction, and organized resistance, broadening any single account of enslavement. This volume is indispensable for readers of African American literature, Atlantic history, and human-rights thought. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, circumstances, and political purposes across a wide archive of testimony. Readers will find both a valuable educational resource and a sustained dialogue about freedom, dignity, remembrance, and the enduring consequences of slavery.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length223 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 18, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Never Forgotten, Never Could be
26CHAPTER VII
2The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Annotated)
27CHAPTER VIII
3Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
28CHAPTER IX
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER X
5LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.
30CHAPTER XI
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6CHAPTER I
31CHAPTER XII
7CHAPTER II
32CHAPTER XIII
8CHAPTER III
33CHAPTER XIV
9CHAPTER IV
34CHAPTER XV
10CHAPTER V
35CHAPTER XVI
11CHAPTER VI
36CHAPTER XVII
12CHAPTER VII
37CHAPTER XVIII
13CHAPTER VIII
38CHAPTER XIX
14CHAPTER IX
39CHAPTER XX
15CHAPTER X
40CHAPTER XXI
16CHAPTER XI
41CHAPTER XXII
17APPENDIX
42APPENDIX
1812 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup)
43A
19EDITOR'S PREFACE
44B
20CHAPTER I
45C
21CHAPTER II
46The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! (Willie Lynch)
22CHAPTER III
47A Speech Delivered on the Bank of James River, Virginia 1712 (Satire on the Cruel Practices of Slave Lynching & Oppression)
23CHAPTER IV
48Lets Make a Slave
24CHAPTER V
49Cardinal Principles for making a Negro
25CHAPTER VI
50The Breaking Process of the African Woman
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