The Life of a Slave Girl - Women's Slave Narratives
Women's Testimonies of Enslavement, Resistance, Faith, Family, and FreedomBy Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Emma and Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Martha Griffith Browne
Length55h 50m
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The Life of a Slave Girl—Women's Slave Narratives gathers an essential body of autobiographical testimony that exposes slavery's violence through the interwoven pressures of gender, family separation, sexual coercion, labor, faith, and the pursuit of freedom. Ranging from urgently personal recollection to reflective moral argument, these narratives employ documentary realism, spiritual meditation, domestic detail, and abolitionist rhetoric. Together, they enlarge the literary history of the slave narrative by foregrounding experiences too often marginalized within canonical accounts. The contributors represent formerly enslaved women whose writings emerged from distinct regions, generations, and social circumstances, yet whose voices collectively challenged proslavery ideology and shaped antislavery public discourse. Their accounts participate in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement, Black print culture, women's life writing, and the long struggle for African American self-representation. The collection's varied perspectives reveal how literacy, religion, kinship, work, and public testimony became instruments of survival and political resistance. This volume is indispensable for readers seeking a nuanced encounter with American slavery and its literary afterlives. It offers the rare opportunity to read multiple forms of witness side by side, tracing both shared structures of oppression and irreducibly individual strategies of endurance. Students and general readers alike will find in these narratives a compelling archive of history, artistry, and ethical dialogue.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length55 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Most Powerful Voices (Annotated)
2The History of Mary Prince (pt. 1)
3The History of Mary Prince (pt. 2)
4Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 1)
5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 2)
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6Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 3)
7Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) (pt. 4)
8Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (pt. 1)
9Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (pt. 2)
10Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 1)
11Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 2)
12Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) (pt. 3)
13A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold)
14From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom (Lucy A. Delaney)
15Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley (Margaretta Matilda Odell)
16Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray) (pt. 1)
17Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray) (pt. 2)
18Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray) (pt. 3)
19Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed (Emma and Lloyd Ray) (pt. 4)
20Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Annie L. Burton)
21RECOLLECTIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE
22A VISION
23Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nina Hill Robinson) (pt. 1)
24Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nina Hill Robinson) (pt. 2)
25Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 1)
26Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 2)
27Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 3)
28Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 4)
29Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 5)
30Autobiography of a Female Slave (Martha Griffith Browne) (pt. 6)
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