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Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was, owned by a brutal master, who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually escaped her master and moved to a northern state. Though she was unable to take her children with her at the time, they were later reunited. Read...
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"An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials. The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass's Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery to his escape to the North in 1838. Douglass tells how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin,...
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A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Paired with historical commentary and powerful paintings, Julius Lester's book presents what it felt like to be a slave in America through the words of black men and women who lived it rather than filtering through the eyes...
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Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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The history of slavery in America, from its origins in the 1500s to its abolition in 1860's, is described, including the conditions they had to endure when transported from Africa, their role in the Southern economy, the restrictions imposed on their lives, the political struggle, the slave rebellions and the end of American slavery with the American Civil War.
11) A slave family
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Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
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