Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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This book is a powerful autobiography penned by Lunsford Lane, an African-American entrepreneur tobacconist from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. His life and narrative shows the plight of slavery, even for the relatively privileged slaves.
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876755
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.
Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C" by Lunsford Lane. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 144084464X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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African American slave narratives of the 19th century recorded the grim realities of the antebellum South; they also provide the foundation for this compelling and revealing work on African American history and experiences. Naturally, it is not possible to really know what being a slave during the antebellum period in America was like without living the experience. But students CAN get eye-opening insight into what it was like through the gripping stories of bravery, courage, persistence, and resiliency in this collection of annotated slave narratives from the period. Each of the collected narratives includes an introduction that provides readers with key historical context on the particular life examined. Moreover, each narrative is accompanied by annotations that broaden the reader's comprehension of that primary document. The primary source documents in this volume tell enthralling stories, such as how slave woman Ellen Craft utilized her particularly pale complexion to pose as a free white man overseeing his slaves to free herself and her husband, and how Henry Brown successfully shipped himself to freedom in a box measuring scarcely 3 feet by two feet by six inches deep—despite being more than six feet tall.
Author: William George Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Henry Box Brown
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807831964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Author: John Spencer Bassett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Lunsford Lane (May 30, 1803 - June 27, 1879) was a formerly enslaved African-American entrepreneur from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. In his autobiography, Lane shows the plight of slavery, even for the relatively privileged slaves. In his autobiography, Lane retells his childhood as the son of house slaves, his entrepreneurial efforts while still enslaved, his efforts to buy his own freedom and his family's, and the legal case by which he almost lost everything, including being tarred and feathered. This edition also includes the chapter on his life from Anti-slavery leaders of North Carolina (1898), by John Spencer Bassett.
Author: James W. C. Pennington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Author: Omar Ibn Said
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299249530
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
