Showing posts with label slave narrative. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slave narrative. Show all posts
Saturday, October 19, 2013

The Book, "Twelve Years A Slave," By Solomon Northup

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Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 [...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A 1865 letter from Jourdon Anderson (a freedman) To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson

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Okay, after reading this article from Yahoo News , this is just a shameless repost from September 2009 (original post). I loved Jourdon...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

African Americans in the Civil War Navy

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Given the wealth of available information about Civil War soldiers, the comparative poverty of such knowledge about Civil War sailors bo...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northrup

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" THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REST " Solomon Northrup was a free black who was kidnapped in New York and sold into slavery for twelv...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Frederick Douglass on Slavery

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Frederick Douglas s "If at any one time of my life more than another, I was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery, that time was...

Born in Slavery

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My own Mammy, Mary, was the master's own daughter. Master told all the slave drivers to leave her alone and not whip her. This made th...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Henry In A Box: Mailed To Freedom

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Henry "Box" Brown: a slave signed, sealed and delivered The baggage handlers ignored the "This Side Up With Care" label...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

'What we are in justice entitled to': A 1865 letter from a freedman

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'What we are in justice entitled to': A 1865 letter from a freedman To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee ...
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