The Memories of Slavery - Complete Collection
Slave Narratives, Abolitionist Voices, and the Struggle for FreedomBy Aphra Behn, Thomas Clarkson, Daniel Drayton, Louis Hughes, Austin Steward, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Moses Grandy, 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, Work Projects Administration, Thomas S. Gaines, Willie Lynch, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Joseph Mountain
Length479h 48m
About this audiobook
The Memories of Slavery—Complete Collection gathers an extraordinary archive of testimony, autobiography, abolitionist argument, travel writing, documentary record, and literary representation. Spanning Atlantic slavery, bondage in the United States, escape, emancipation, and Reconstruction, it juxtaposes first-person recollection with polemical, legal, and historical materials. Accounts of flight, family separation, resistance, and self-fashioning stand beside texts that expose the contested means by which slavery was narrated, remembered, and politically mobilized. Its contributors encompass formerly enslaved people, abolitionists, journalists, reformers, observers, and compilers of historical testimony, from the transatlantic world of Equiano and Prince to nineteenth-century African American activism and the documentary ambitions associated with the Work Projects Administration. These diverse voices illuminate Black literary and political traditions of witness while situating antislavery writing within wider movements for abolition, citizenship, education, and racial justice. The collection's varied provenance also invites critical attention to mediation, editorial framing, and the reliability of historical documents. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers, this volume offers a rare opportunity to trace slavery's many lived realities and afterlives across genres and generations. Its breadth encourages comparative reading: voices of survival and resistance enter dialogue with reformist rhetoric, public memory, and archival evidence. The result is both an invaluable educational resource and a compelling invitation to examine how narratives of slavery have shaped historical understanding.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length479 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (Annotated)
26Henry Cheatam
2The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
27Laura Clark
3Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States
28Hattie Clayton
4ALABAMA
29Wadley "Shorty" Clemons
5Charlie Aarons
30William Colbert
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6Anthony Abercrombie
31Tildy Collins
7Molly Ammond (Ammonds)
32Sara Colquitt
8Charity Anderson
33Mandy McCullough Cosby
9Gus Askew
34Emma Crockett
10Tom Baker
35Cheney Cross
11Henry Barnes
36Matilda Pugh Daniel
12Nathan Beauchamp
37Carrie Davis
13Oliver Bell
38Clara Davis
14Nelson Birdsong
39George Dillard
15Ank Bishop
40Ella Dilliard
16Siney Bonner
41Rufus Dirt
17Jennie Bowen
42Katherine Eppes
18Nannie Bradfield
43Reuben Fitzpatrick
19Martha Bradley
44Heywood Ford
20Allen Brown
45Bert Frederick
21Gus Brown
46Delia Garlic
22Walter Calloway
47Angie Garrett
23Esther King Casey
48Henry Garry
24Amy Chapman
49Georgia
25Emma Chapman
50Fannie Gibson
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