TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Hughes & D. Green's Attempts to Break Free
Two Firsthand Narratives of Enslavement, Escape, and FreedomBy Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green
Length7h
About this audiobook
TILL THE LAST BREATH gathers two compelling accounts of enslavement, resistance, and the arduous pursuit of freedom. Its governing theme is not merely escape but the sustained struggle to reclaim family, dignity, labor, and self-definition under slavery's coercive regime. Moving between plainspoken testimony, dramatic recollection, moral reflection, and documentary detail, the volume places intimate scenes of danger alongside broader indictments of the slave system. The paired narratives stand out for their attention to the practical ingenuity and emotional costs involved in attempts to break free. Louis Hughes and Jacob D. Green write from the lived experience of bondage and emancipation, contributing to the vital tradition of nineteenth-century African American slave narrative. Their voices participate in a literary and political movement that used autobiography as evidence: exposing slavery's violence, contesting racist assumptions, and asserting Black authorship and historical authority. Though shaped by distinct circumstances and narrative emphases, these accounts converge in their insistence that freedom was actively pursued rather than passively bestowed. Together, they deepen an understanding of abolitionist-era testimony and the contested meanings of liberation. This volume is especially valuable for readers of African American literature, U.S. history, and life writing. It offers the rare opportunity to read multiple first-person perspectives in productive conversation, tracing shared themes through differing styles, memories, and strategies of survival. Students and general readers alike will find in these narratives an educational, sobering, and profoundly human record of resistance.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 9, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TILL THE LAST BREATH – The Incredible True Story of Louis Hughes & Jacob D. Green’s Attempts to Break Free
2Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom – Selected True Stories from Former Slaves & Abolitionists (Illustrated) (Annotated)
3Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom
4PREFACE
5CHAPTER I LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION
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6CHAPTER II SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY
7CHAPTER III SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
8CHAPTER IV REBELLION WEAKENING — SLAVES' HOPES STRENGTHENING
9CHAPTER V FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY
10Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave
11TESTIMONIALS
12NARRATIVE, &c
13WHAT THE "TIMES" SAID OF THE SECESSION IN 1861 (From the Liverpool Daily Post, Feb. 3, 1863)
14SECESSION CONDEMNED IN A SOUTHERN CONVENTION SPEECH
15THE CONFEDERATE AND THE SCOTTISH CLERGY ON SLAVERY
16SLAVERY AND LIBERTY
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