Slave Life in Georgia
A Fugitive Slave Narrative of Bondage, Family Separation, Forced Labor, and Escape from GeorgiaBy John Brown
Length5h 45m
About this audiobook
John Brown's *Slave Life in Georgia* is a powerful autobiographical account of enslavement, labor, family separation, physical coercion, and the precarious pursuit of freedom in the antebellum American South. Combining personal testimony with the plain, direct rhetoric characteristic of nineteenth-century slave narratives, the book transforms individual memory into social indictment. Its episodic structure emphasizes the repeated violence and instability of bondage, while its attention to everyday experience exposes slavery not as an abstract institution but as a system governing work, movement, belief, and human relationships. Written within the transatlantic abolitionist tradition, the narrative also participates in the era's larger struggle over whose testimony could define American history. Brown's authority derives from lived experience: as a formerly enslaved man who escaped to Britain, he wrote against the proslavery representation of enslaved people as contented, dependent, or incapable of self-direction. His narrative belongs to a culture of abolitionist publishing in which firsthand accounts were used to educate readers, mobilize moral opposition, and challenge the legal and religious defenses of slavery. The urgency of his purpose is evident in the work's emphasis on witness, memory, and personal agency. Recommended for readers of African American history, abolitionist literature, and autobiography, *Slave Life in Georgia* offers both documentary value and literary force. It is an essential text for understanding how formerly enslaved writers reclaimed authorship of their lives and contested the historical meaning of slavery.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 29, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Works (Annotated)
2Preface
3Chapter I. My Childhood and First Troubles
4Chapter II. My New Master: And How He Came to Sell Me
5Chapter III. I Am Sold Again. How I Fared
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6Chapter IV. The Story of John Glasgow
7Chapter V. Dr. Hamilton's Experiments Upon Me. My Master Dies, and I Again Change Hands
8Chapter VI. John Morgan
9Chapter VII. Something About Some of My Fellow-Slaves
10Chapter VIII. I Make an Attempt to Escape. How It Ended
11Chapter IX. More Tribulation
12Chapter X. I Make Another Attempt to Escape
13Chapter XI. Fortune and Misfortune
14Chapter XII. The Slave-Pen in New Orleans
15Chapter XIII. I Am Once More Sold
16Chapter XIV. How I Got Away From Jepsey James'
17Chapter XV. How I Came to Be John Brown
18Chapter XVI. I Am Advertised as a Run-Away
19Chapter XVII. I Am Booked to Canada, Express, By the Underground Railroad
20Chapter XVIII. The Cultivation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice
21Chapter XIX. A Few Words on the Treatment of Slaves
22Chapter XX. My Reflections
23Chapter XXI. The Underground Railroad
24Declaration
25John Brown's Testimonials
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