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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807102733 ISBN 13: 9780807102732

Verlag: LSU Press, 1977

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Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves.

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John W. Blassingame was professor of history at Yale University; editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers; and the author of The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South and Black New Orleans, 1860-1880

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Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, and shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, and the psychological response to bondage. The views given are those of house servants and field hands, docile slaves and rebels, urban slaves and rural slaves, slaves with kind masters and those with cruel ones. These wide-ranging documents, together with annotations, notes, an index, dozens of illustrations, and an incisive introduction, form a volume of unusual scope and character.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LSU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807102733
• ISBN 13: 9780807102732
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 844
• Herausgeber: Blassingame John W
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland