Author: Lewis Garrard ClarkPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368867245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years
Author: Lewis Garrard ClarkPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368867245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America
Author: Lewis Garrard ClarkePublisher: V Ethel Willis White Books
ISBN: 9780295992006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- A Re-Introduction to Lewis Clarke, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Hero -- FACSIMILE OF THE NARRATIVE BY LEWIS CLARKE -- PREFACE. -- NARRATIVE OF LEWIS CLARKE. -- PROGRESS OF FREEDOM. -- APPENDIX . -- A SKETCH OF THE CLARKE FAMILY. -- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. -- WHAT IS SLAVERY? -- SLAVERY AND CHRISTIANITY. -- SLAVEHOLDER'S PARODY. -- I AM MONARCH OF NOUGHT I SURVEY. -- OUR COUNTRYMEN IN CHAINS. -- EXTRACT FROM CAMPBELL'S ""PLEASURES OF HOPE.""--THE SOUTH-READ! READ! -- NOTE . -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
Author: Lewis Garrard ClarkePublisher: Boston : D.H. Ela
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
Author: Lewis ClarkePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295997613
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted. During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with Frederick Douglass, Lewis Tappan, Gerrit Smith, Josiah Henson, John Brown, Lydia Child, and Martin Delaney. His experiences are evident in Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, and Stowe identified him as the prototype for the book's rebellious character George Harris. This facsimile edition of Clarke's book is introduced by his great grandson, Carver Clark Gayton, who has served as director of Affirmative Action Programs at the University of Washington; corporate director of educational relations and training for the Boeing Company; lecturer at the Evans School of Public Administration, University of Washington; and executive director of the Northwest African American Museum. He lives in Seattle. A V Ethel Willis White Book
Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke
Author: Lewis Garrard ClarkePublisher:
ISBN: 9781946640628
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
LARGE PRINT EDITION: I FIRST became acquainted with LEWIS CLARKE in December, 1842. I well remember the deep impression made upon my mind on hearing his Narrative from his own lips. It gave me a new and more vivid impression of the wrongs of Slavery than I had ever before felt. Evidently a person of good native talents and of deep sensibilities, such a mind had been under the dark cloud of slavery for more than twenty-five years. Letters, reading, all the modes of thought awakened by them, had been utterly hid from his eyes; and yet his mind had evidently been active, and trains of thought were flowing through it which he was utterly unable to express. I well remember, too, the wave on wave of deep feeling excited in an audience of more than a thousand persons, at Hallowell, Me., as they listened to his story, and looked upon his energetic and manly countenance, and wondered if the dark cloud of slavery could cover up--hide from the world, and degrade to the condition of brutes--such immortal minds. His story, there and wherever since told, has aroused the most utter abhorrence of the Slave System. For the last two years, I have had the most ample opportunity of becoming acquainted with Mr. Clarke. He has made this place his home, when not engaged in giving to public audiences the story of his sufferings and the sufferings of his fellow-slaves. Soon after he came to Ohio, by the faithful instruction of pious friends, he was led, as he believes, to see himself a sinner before God, and to seek pardon and forgiveness through the precious blood of the Lamb. He has ever manifested an ardent thirst for religious, as well as for other hinds of knowledge. In the opinion of all those best acquainted with him, he has maintained the character of a sincere Christian. That he is what he professes to be, --a slave escaped from the grasp of avarice and power, --there is not the least shadow of doubt.
I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Author: Karolyn Smardz FrostPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history. The couple was spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory. In June 1833, Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. The Blackburn case was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad. The impassioned defense of the Blackburns by Canada's lieutenant governor set precedents for all future fugitive-slave cases. The Blackburns settled in Toronto and founded the city's first taxi business. But they never forgot the millions who still suffered in slavery. Working with prominent abolitionists, Thornton and Lucie made their home a haven for runaways. The Blackburns died in the 1890s, and their fascinating tale was lost to history. Lost, that is, until a chance archaeological discovery in a downtown Toronto school yard brought the story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn again to light.
Yuletide in Dixie
Author: Robert E. MayPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813942152
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday, and overlooking evidence not only that countless southern whites passed Christmases fearful that their slaves would revolt but also that slavery’s most punitive features persisted at holiday time. In Yuletide in Dixie, May uncovers a dark reality that not only alters our understanding of that history but also sheds new light on the breakdown of slavery in the Civil War and how false assumptions about slave Christmases afterward became harnessed to myths undergirding white supremacy in the United States. By exposing the underside of slave Christmases, May helps us better understand the problematic stereotypes of modern southern historical tourism and why disputes over Confederate memory retain such staying power today. A major reinterpretation of human bondage, Yuletide in Dixie challenges disturbing myths embedded deeply in our culture.
When Owing a Shilling Costs a Dollar
Author: Carver Clark GaytonPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499017790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Lewis G. Clarke, born into slavery, was separated from his Scottish father and quadroon mother at the age of six in Madison County, Kentucky. The atrocities he suffered and witnessed under his new masters were abominable and way beyond what most slaves endured during slavery. After escaping from bondage, Clarke then traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and became a primary spokesman for the abolitionist movement throughout the Northeast and Canada during the 1840s and 1850s. While in Cambridge, he lived in the home of Aaron and Mary Safford where he met many times with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary’s stepsister, as well as many other luminaries of the abolitionist movement. The rebellious quadroon slave George Harris of Mrs. Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was identified by her as based significantly upon the life of Clarke. When the Civil War ended, Clarke continued to be in demand as a speaker, nationally, on behalf of former slaves. Clarke’s notoriety and influence was such that when he died in Lexington, Kentucky, that his passing was noted in newspapers throughout the world with full-page eulogies. If there was a common thread in Lewis’s life, it related to striving to have the kind of family life that he never experienced as a child; however, during his lifetime, the vicissitudes of race and color lines in America made his vision not only challenging but ephemeral.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave
Author: Hank TrentPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the time were unable to defend the book; and, until now, historians could not verify Williams's identity or find the Alabama slave owners he named in the book. As a result, most scholars characterized the author as a fraud, perhaps never even a slave, or at least not under the circumstances described in the book. In this annotated edition of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the true author of the book -- an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia. Trent identifies Williams's owners in those states as well as in Maryland and Louisiana. He explains how Williams escaped from slavery and then altered his life story to throw investigators off his track. Through meticulous and extensive research, Trent also reveals unknown details of James Williams's real life, drawing upon runaway ads, court cases, census records, and estate inventories never before linked to him or to the narrative. In the end, Trent proves that the author of the book was truly an enslaved man, albeit one who wrote a romanticized, fictionalized story based on his real life, which proved even more complex and remarkable than the story he told.
