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  • From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit

    The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph

    by Peter Randolph ...
    Peter Randolph was born c. 1825 in Prince George County, Virginia, on the Brandon Plantation. He was enslaved upon birth and owned by Carter H. Edloe, who also held his mother and four or five siblings in bondage. Randolph's father was enslaved on a nearby plantation, and died when Randolph was approximately ten. Edloe had written a will directing that upon his death his slaves be freed and land ... Read more

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  • Sketches of Slave Life

    Illustrations of the 'Peculiar Institution'

    by Peter Randolph ...
    Peter Randolph's "Sketches of Slave Life" offers a poignant and unflinching glimpse into the brutal realities of American slavery through a series of vivid narratives and personal recollections. Written with a literary style that blends evocative imagery and earnest testimony, Randolph'Äôs work illustrates the psychological and physical torment endured by enslaved individuals, set against the ... Read more

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    From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life (UNABRIDGED)

    by Peter RANDOLPH ...
    Narrated by Benjamin Kim ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 46 min

    Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying in 1897. This is his 1893 autobiography. The latter third of the book is a slightly edited re-publication of a pamphlet he published in 1855 (so before the Civil War) entitled “Sketches Of Slave Life." This recording omits chapter fourteen of "From Slave ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to Pulpit

    by Peter Randolph ...
    Series series Regenerations
    This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a Black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with his entire plantation cohort. A lawsuit launched by Randolph against his former master’s estate left legal ... Read more

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    Edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
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  • Tubman, Douglass, and Other Maryland Slave Narratives

    by Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson ...
    Series series Baltimore Authors
    This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland. It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and two others.The difficulties of Harriet Tubman, often called “The Moses ... Read more

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: A Quick Read edition

    by Quick Read, Frederick Douglass ...
    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 4 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 10 minutesThe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It ... Read more

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  • The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina

    by John Andrew Jackson ...
    In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress. He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not ... Read more

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  • The Story of Mattie J. Jackson

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    by L. S. Thompson, Ryan Holloway ...
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  • Clotel; or, the President's Daughter

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  • Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom – Incredible Escape of William & Ellen Craft from Slavery (Annotated)

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    Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom is a landmark antebellum slave narrative that combines adventure, testimony, political argument, and moral indictment. Recounting the Crafts' daring 1848 escape from Georgia to the North, the work turns disguise, mobility, and literacy into instruments of liberation. Its central episode—Ellen Craft's passing as a white male enslaver while William travels as her ... Read more

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  • Mary S. Peake: The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe

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    The book begins by recounting Peake’s early life in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was born to a free Black woman and a white Englishman. Despite the restrictions on education for African Americans at the time, Peake was secretly taught to read and write, and she developed a strong passion for learning. This early exposure to education fueled her later mission to teach others, particularly those who ... Read more

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