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The Book of Negroes
Abducted As An 11-year-old Child From Her Village In West Africa And Forced To Walk For Months To The Sea In A Coffle--a String Of Slaves-- Aminata Diallo Is Sent To Live As A Slave In South Carolina.... But Years Later, She Forges Her Way To Freedom, Serving The British In The Revolutionary War And Registering Her Name In The Historic Book Of Negroes. This Book, An Actual Document, Provides A Short But Immensely Revealing Record Of Freed Loyalist Slaves Who Requested Permission To Leave The Us For Resettlement In Nova Scotia, Only To Find That The Haven They Sought Was Steeped In An Oppression All Of Its Own. Lawrence Hill. Includes Bibliographical References.
The Classic Slave Narratives
Before The End Of The Civil War, Over One Hundred Former Slaves Had Written Moving Stories Of Their Captivity And By 1944, When George Washington Carver Published His Autobiography, Over Six Thousand ...Ex-slaves Had Written What Are Called Slave Narratives. No Group Of Slaves Anywhere, In Any Other Era, Has Left Such Prolific Testimony To The Horror Of Bondage And Servitude. The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or, Gustavus Vassa, The African -- The History Of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave -- Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An African Slave -- Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl / [harriet Jacobs, Writing As Linda Brent]. Edited And With An Introduction By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [669]-672).
To Be a Slave
a 30th-anniversary Edition Of The 1969 Newbery Honor Winner. For Three Decades to Be A Slave Has Moved Readers And Educated Them About The Experience Of Slavery In America, Told Through The Words Of B...lack Men And Women Who Lived It. In This Edition, Author Julius Lester And Illustrator Tom Feelings Have Written New And Intensely Personal Introductions, Reflecting On The Longevity Of The Book, Its Impact On Both Of Them, And The Role It Has Played In Helping Americans Face And Move Beyond A Painful Past.children's Literaturea Number Of Books Have Been Written For Young People About Slavery In The United States, But None Could Be More Powerful And Compelling Than Lester's Award-winning Book. Reissued On The Thirtieth Anniversary Of The Original Publication, This Newbery Honor Book Personalizes The Hardships And Struggles Of African-american Slaves. What Was It Like To Be A Slave? Lester Uses The Words Of Slaves And Ex-slaves To Tell This Story. From Slave Narratives Of The 1800s And Interviews Of Ex-slaves Conducted By The Federal Writers' Project Of The 1930s, The Victims Describe Living Conditions Under A Bondage That Negated One's Humanity. What Emerges Is Not The Stereotypical Image Of The Passive Or Happy-go-lucky Slave. Passion And Emotion Emanate From These Passages, As Those Affected Describe Slave Trade, The Auction Block, Resistance To Slavery, Plantation Life And Emancipation. It Is Easy To See Why This Book Continues To Have Appeal After 30 Years. The Author's Goal In Allowing Readers To Experience Slaves As Human Beings Has Made This Book To Excel. The Dehumanizing Aspects Of Slavery Are Made Abundantly Clear, But A Testament To The Human Spirit Of Those Who Endured Or Survived This Experience Is Exalted. 1998 (orig. 1968), Puffin Books/penguin, $20.00 And $5.99. Ages 10 To 14. Reviewer: Jeanette Lambert
A Crime So Monstrous: A Shocking Exposé of Modern-Day Sex Slavery, Human Trafficking and Urban Child Markets
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The Slave (The Marketplace, #2)
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he ...describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
This Bold, Innovative Book Promises To Radically Alter Our Understanding Of The Atlantic Slave Trade, And The Depths Of Its Horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood Offers A Penetrating Look At The Process Of ...Enslavement From Its African Origins Through The Middle Passage And Into The American Slave Market. Saltwater Slavery Is Animated By Deep Research And Gives Us A Graphic Experience Of The Slave Trade From The Vantage Point Of The Slaves Themselves. The Result Is Both A Remarkable Transatlantic View Of The Culture Of Enslavement, And A Painful, Intimate Vision Of The Bloody, Daily Business Of The Slave Trade.
Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara
Though this powerful slavery-era narrative was penned almost 200 years ago, its message and emotional prowess have lost no intensity. Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and Pilgrim's Progr...ess, as one of the books that most influenced his life, few true tales of adventure and survival are as astonishing as this one. Shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in August of 1815, James Riley and his crew had no idea of the trials awaiting them as they gathered their beached belongings. They would be captured by a band of nomadic Arabs, herded across the Sahara Desert, beaten, forced to witness astounding brutalities, sold into slavery, and starved. Riley watched most of his crew die one by one, killed off by cruelty or caprice, as his own weight dropped from 240 pounds to a mere 90 at his rescue. First published in 1817, this dramatic saga soon became a national bestseller with over a million copies sold. Even today, it is rare to find a narrative that illuminates the degradations of slave existence with such brutal honesty.
Escape from the Slave Traders
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The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
The Middle Passage is the name given to one of the most tragic ordeals in history: the cruel and terrifying journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean. In this seminal work, master artist ...Tom Feelings tells the complete story of this horrific diaspora in sixty-four extraordinary narrative paintings. Achingly real, they draw us into the lives of the millions of African men, women, and children who were savagely torn from their beautiful homelands, crowded into disease-ridden "death ships," and transported under nightmarish conditions to the so-called New World. An introduction by noted historian Dr. John Henrik Clarke traces the roots of the Atlantic slave trade and gives a vivid summary of its four centuries of brutality. The Middle Passage reaches us on a visceral level. No one can experience it and remain unmoved. But while we absorb the horror of these images, we also can find some hope in them. They are a tribute to the survival of the human spirit, and the humanity won by the survivors of the Middle Passage belongs to us all.
