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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies PDF

843 Pages·1977·23.939 MB·English
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SLAVE TESTIMONY SLAVE TESTIMONY w *7<v&ße*itunie&o£ s£ette*&, SfieecAet, 'ItUerurieM,, cutcC j4uto6iöyiafiAie& EDITED BY JOHN W. BLASSINGAME LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS • BATON ROUGE Copyright © 1977 by Louisiana State University All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Set in Mergenthaler VIP Caledonia Designer: Albert Crochet Typeface: VIP Caledonia Typesetter: G & S Typesetters, Inc., Austin, Texas 1980 printing LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Main entry under title: Slave testimony. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Slavery in the United States—Personal narra­ tives. 2. Slavery in the United States—History— Sources. I. Blassingame, John W., 1940- E444S57 30i.44'93'0973 75-18040 ISBN 0-8071-0184-2 ISBN 0-8071-0273-3 pbk. For John, Jr. CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments XV Introduction xvii Parti Letters, 1736-1864 1 Part II Speeches, 1837-1862 121 Part III Newspaper and Magazine Interviews, 1827-1863 175 Part IV American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission Interviews, 1863 307 Part V Newspaper and Magazine Interviews, 1864-1938 445 Part VI Interviews by Scholars, 1872-1938 601 Part VII Autobiographies Published in Periodicals and Books, 1828-1878 679 Name Index 747 Subject Index ILLUSTRATIONS Slave Auction frontispiece Job Ben Solomon 6 Elizabeth Hobbs Kecklev 2-0 Moses Roper 24 Cinque 35 Henry Bibb Si Thomas Sims 92 Danger field Newby 116 Archer Alexander 118 After the Flogging 168 The Flogging 214 Ellen Craft 269 William and Ellen Craft 272 Solomon Northup 293 John Anderson 354 Robert Smalls 375 John H. Hill 427 The Auction 500 Field Hands 542 Emancipation 548 Ella Shepard 612 Eliza Walker 615 Thomas Rutling 617 Benjamin Holmes 619 Sundown 651

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