The Autobiography Of A Runaway Slave

Author : Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810133426

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Biography of a Runaway Slave by Miguel Barnet Pdf

Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Translated from the Spanish by W. Nick Hill Introduction by William Luis Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet’s ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent’s history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past.

Author : Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032741525

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The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave by Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet Pdf

Documentair verhaal gebaseerd op de orale getuigenis van een ex-slaaf over zijn leven voor de afschaffing van de slavernij, ervaringen als weggelopen slaaf, het leven op de plantage als een vrij man en het leven als soldaat tijdens de Cubaanse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog na 1895.

Author : Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00017683

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Slave Life in Georgia by Brown Pdf

Author : J.D Green
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752308402

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Narrative of the Life of J.D Green... by J.D Green Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Narrative of the Life of J.D Green... by J.D Green

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466821521

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Runaway America by David Waldstreicher Pdf

Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associate with both. Franklin was the sole Founding Father who was once owned by someone else and was among the few to derive his fortune from slavery. As an indentured servant, Franklin fled his master before his term was complete; as a struggling printer, he built a financial empire selling newspapers that not only advertised the goods of a slave economy (not to mention slaves) but also ran the notices that led to the recapture of runaway servants. Perhaps Waldstreicher's greatest achievement is in showing that this was not an ironic outcome but a calculated one. America's freedom, no less than Franklin's, demanded that others forgo liberty. Through the life of Franklin, Runaway America provides an original explanation to the paradox of American slavery and freedom.

Author : Esteban Montejo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:880772376

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The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave by Esteban Montejo Pdf

Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501126437

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Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Pdf

A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital. In setting up his household he brought along nine slaves, including Ona Judge. As the President grew accustomed to Northern ways, there was one change he couldn’t abide: Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire. Though Ona Judge lived a life of relative comfort, she was denied freedom. So, when the opportunity presented itself one clear and pleasant spring day in Philadelphia, Judge left everything she knew to escape to New England. Yet freedom would not come without its costs. At just twenty-two-years-old, Ona became the subject of an intense manhunt led by George Washington, who used his political and personal contacts to recapture his property. “A crisp and compulsively readable feat of research and storytelling” (USA TODAY), historian and National Book Award finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar weaves a powerful tale and offers fascinating new scholarship on how one young woman risked everything to gain freedom from the famous founding father and most powerful man in the United States at the time.

Author : John Thompson
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342810286

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The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave by John Thompson Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Samuel R. Ward
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579105693

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Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro by Samuel R. Ward Pdf

Author : Gary Collison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029798

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Shadrach Minkins by Gary Collison Pdf

On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins’ life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary Black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins’ journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free Black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins’s arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of Black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston’s Black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee Blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain. Webster is just one of the familiar figures in this tale of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. Others, such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (who made use of Minkins’s Montreal community in Uncle Tom’s Cabin), also appear throughout the narrative. Minkins’ intriguing story stands as a fascinating commentary on the nation’s troubled times—on urban slavery and Boston abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and on one of the federal government’s last desperate attempts to hold the Union together.

Author : Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:317528128

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Autobiography of a Runaway Slave by Esteban Montejo,Miguel Barnet Pdf

Author : Devon W. Carbado
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807069134

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The Long Walk to Freedom by Devon W. Carbado Pdf

In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship.

Author : James Lindsay Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : African American Methodists
ISBN : NYPL:33433081797890

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Autobiography of James L. Smith by James Lindsay Smith Pdf

Author : John P. Parker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393348019

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His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad by John P. Parker Pdf

"Surpasses all previous slave narratives…Usually we need to invent our American heroes. With the publication of Parker's extraordinary memoir, we seem to have discovered the genuine article." —Joseph J. Ellis, Civilization In the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought—and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827—1900) told this dramatic story to a newspaperman after the Civil War. He recounts his years of slavery, his harrowing runaway attempt, and how he finally bought his freedom. Eventually moving to Ripley, Ohio, a stronghold of the abolitionist movement, Parker became an integral part of the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves cross the Ohio River from Kentucky and go north to freedom. Parker risked his life—hiding in coffins, diving off a steamboat into the river with bounty hunters on his trail—and his own freedom to fight for the freedom of his people.

Author : Dickson J. Preston
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421425948

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Young Frederick Douglass by Dickson J. Preston Pdf

This highly regarded biography traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass, from his birth on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 to 1838, when he escaped from slavery to emerge upon the national scene.