The Real-Life Stories that Abolished Slavery: 20 Most Influential Slave Narratives
Twenty Defining Testimonies of Bondage, Resistance, and FreedomBy Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Northup, Aphra Behn, William Craft, Ellen Craft, William Wells Brown, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Josiah Henson, Henry Bibb, J. D. Green, Thomas S. Gaines, Louis Hughes, Charles Ball, Isaac Mason, James W. C. Pennington, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Keckley, Lucy Delaney
Length136h 51m
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The Real-Life Stories that Abolished Slavery gathers an indispensable archive of testimony against bondage, tracing slavery's violence, resistance, family separation, self-emancipation, and contested aftermath. Its varied forms—spiritual autobiography, captivity narrative, political indictment, memoir, and reformist address—reveal the slave narrative as both literary art and abolitionist instrument. Accounts of daring escape, maritime enslavement, domestic labor, sexual coercion, and the struggle for education give the volume extraordinary historical and emotional range. The contributors represent a transatlantic community of formerly enslaved writers, speakers, activists, and witnesses whose works helped shape nineteenth-century antislavery culture. Their voices intersect with abolitionism, Black print culture, evangelical reform, women's activism, and the long struggle for citizenship after emancipation. Drawn from different regions, occupations, and experiences of enslavement, these narrators collectively contest proslavery ideology by asserting intellectual authority, moral personhood, and the complexity of Black lived experience. This volume is essential for readers of American literature, African diasporic history, and human-rights discourse. It offers a rare opportunity to compare distinct rhetorical strategies and life histories within one compelling anthology. Readers will find not only invaluable documentary evidence but also an ongoing dialogue about freedom, memory, gender, labor, and the power of storytelling to effect political change.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length136 hrs 51 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life (Annotated)
2Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
3Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845)
4PREFACE
5LETTER FROM WENDELL PHILLIPS, ESQ.
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6CHAPTER I
7CHAPTER II
8CHAPTER III
9CHAPTER IV
10CHAPTER V
11CHAPTER VI
12CHAPTER VII
13CHAPTER VIII
14CHAPTER IX
15CHAPTER X
16CHAPTER XI
17APPENDIX
18My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
19INTRODUCTION
20CHAPTER I. Childhood
21CHAPTER II. Removed from My First Home
22CHAPTER III. Parentage
23CHAPTER IV. A General Survey of the Slave Plantation
24CHAPTER V. Gradual Initiation to the Mysteries of Slavery
25CHAPTER VI. Treatment of Slaves on Lloyd’s Plantation
26CHAPTER VII. Life in the Great House
27CHAPTER VIII. A Chapter of Horrors
28CHAPTER IX. Personal Treatment
29CHAPTER X. Life in Baltimore
30CHAPTER XI. “A Change Came O’er the Spirit of My Dream”
31CHAPTER XII. Religious Nature Awakened
32CHAPTER XIII. The Vicissitudes of Slave Life
33CHAPTER XIV. Experience in St. Michael’s
34CHAPTER XV. Covey, the Negro Breaker
35CHAPTER XVI. Another Pressure of the Tyrant’s Vice
36CHAPTER XVII. The Last Flogging
37CHAPTER XVIII. New Relations and Duties
38CHAPTER XIX. The Run-Away Plot
39CHAPTER XX. Apprenticeship Life
40CHAPTER XXI. My Escape from Slavery
41CHAPTER XXII. Liberty Attained
42CHAPTER XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists
43CHAPTER XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain
44CHAPTER XXV. Various Incidents
45RECEPTION SPEECH10
46Dr. Campbell’s Reply
47LETTER TO HIS OLD MASTER11 To My Old Master, Thomas Auld
48THE NATURE OF SLAVERY
49INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY
50WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?
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