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List of Figures | |
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Series Editors' Preface | |
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Preface to the New Edition | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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"Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hands on Me": Enslavement | |
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A European Slave Trader, Describes the African Slave Trade (1682) | |
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A Muslim Merchant, Recalls His Capture and Enslavement (1733) | |
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An Employee of Britain's Royal African Company Describes the Workings of the Slave Trade (1738) | |
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Olaudah Equiano, an II-Year-Old Ibo from Nigeria, Remembers His Kidnapping into Slavery (1789) | |
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A Scottish Explorer, Mungo Park, Offers a Graphic Account of the African Slave Trade (1797) | |
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Venture Smith Relates the Story of His Kidnapping at the Age of Six (1798) | |
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"God's A-Gwineter Trouble de Water": The Middle Passage and Arrival | |
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A European Slave Trader, Describes a Shipboard Revolt by Enslaved Africans (1700) | |
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Olaudah Equiano, Who Was Born in Eastern Nigeria, Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage (1789) | |
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A Doctor, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes Conditions on an English Slaver (1788) | |
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Olaudah Equiano Describes His Arrival in the New World (1789) | |
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An English Physician, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes the Treatment of Newly Arrived Slaves in the West Indies (1788) | |
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"A Change is Gonna Come": Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution | |
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The Poet Phillis Wheatley Writes about Freedom and Equal Rights (1774) | |
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Massachusetts Slaves Petition for Freedom (1774) | |
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Virginia's Royal Governor Promises Freedom to Slaves Who Join the British Army (1775) | |
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Virginia's Assembly Denounces Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775) | |
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Connecticut Slaves Petition for Freedom (1779) | |
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Boston King, a Black Loyalist, Seeks Freedom Behind British Lines (1798) | |
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A Participant in Gabriel's Rebellion Explains Why He Took Part in the Attempted Insurrection (1812) | |
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Gabriel's Brother Explains the Rebellion's Objectives (1800) | |
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President Tries to Arrange for the Deportation of Men Involved in Gabriel's Rebellion (1802) | |
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"We Raise de Wheat, Dey Gib Us de Corn": Conditions of Life | |
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A Free Black Kidnapped from New York, Solomon Northrup, Describes the Working Conditions of Slaves on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation (1853) | |
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a Slave in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia, Compares Working Conditions on Tobacco and Cotton Plantations (1858) | |
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a Maryland Slave, Describes Slave Housing, Diet, and Clothing (1877) | |
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Who Was a Slave near Washington, D.C., Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (1856) | |
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A South Carolina Slave, Recalls the Material Conditions of Slave Life (1898) | |
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A Former Virginia Slave, Remembers a Slave Auction (1937) | |
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Born into Slavery in Virginia, Describes a Slave Sale (1868) | |
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"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen": Visual History of Slavery | |
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The Inspection and Sale of an African Captive Along the West African Coast (1854) | |
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An Illustration of the Layout of a Slave Ship (1807) | |
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Enslaved Africans on the Deck of a Slave Ship (1860) | |
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Two Slave Sale Advertisements (1859, c.1780s) | |
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A Fugitive Slave Advertisement (1774) | |
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An Illustration of a Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia (1856) | |
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Five Generations of a Slave Family (c.1850s) | |
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An Engraving Illustrating Nat Turner's Insurrection (c.1831) | |
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A Plantation Manual Offers Detailed Instructions to Overseers about How They Are to Treat Nursing Mothers (1857-1858) | |
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African Americans in Baltimore Celebrate the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, Extending the Vote to Black Men (1870) | |
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"O Mother Don't You Weep": Women, Children, and Families | |
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Describes Her Efforts to Escape Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuse (1861) | |
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Describes How She Aborted a Slave Sale (1889) | |
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Escapes to Freedom During the Civil War (1902) | |
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Recalls the Formative Experiences of His Childhood (1898) | |
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Pennington Analyzes the Impact of Slavery upon Childhood (1849) | |
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Describes the Moment When He First Recognized the Meaning of Slavery (1842) | |
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Learns that Her Husband, Who Had Been Sold Away, Has Taken Another Wife (1869) | |
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An Overseer Attempts to Rape Mother (1877) | |
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Discusses the Impact of Slavery on Family Life (1846) | |
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"Go Home to My Lord and Be Free": Religion | |
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from Eastern Nigeria, Describes West African Religious Beliefs and Practices (1789) | |
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a Slave in Maryland, Remembers a Slave Funeral, which Incorporated Traditional African Customs (1837) | |
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a Former Virginia Slave, Describes the Religious Gatherings Slaves Held Outside of Their Masters' Supervision (1893) | |
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Who Toiled in Slavery in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Arkansas, Discusses "Conjuration" (1849) | |
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"Oppressed So Hard They Could Not Stand": Punishment | |
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a Fugitive Slave from Maryland, Describes the Circumstances that Prompted Masters to Whip Slaves (1845) | |
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of Virginia Describes a Lashing She Received (1868) | |
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Born into Slavery in Virginia, Has Bells and Horns Fastened on His Head (1855) | |
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a Missouri Slave Driver, Is Tied Up in a Smokehouse (1847) | |
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a Slave in Georgia and the Carolinas, Is Punished for Attempting to Run Away (1837) | |
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A Kentucky Slave, Describes the Implements His Mistress Used to Beat Him (1846) | |
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"Let My People Go": Resistance and Flight | |
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Resists a Slave Breaker (1845) | |
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a Baptist Preacher in Virginia, Describes His Revolt Against Slavery (1831) | |
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a Former Maryland Slave, Sneaks into the South to Free Slaves (1872) | |
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Life and Methods for Liberating Slaves (1863, 1865) | |
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the "President" of the Underground Railroad, Assists Fugitives to Escape Slavery (1876) | |
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A Maryland Slave, Follows the North Star to Freedom (1879) | |
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Borrows a Sailor's Papers to Escape Slavery (1855, 1895) | |
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Henry "Box" Brown of Virginia Escapes Slavery in a Sealed Box (1872) | |
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a Fugitive Slave from Kentucky, Kills Her Daughter Rather Than See Her Returned to Slavery (1876) | |
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"The Walls Came Tumblin' Down": Emancipation | |
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the Mother of a Black Soldier, Pleads with President Abraham Lincoln Not to Rescind the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | |
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Private Thomas Long Assesses the Meaning of Black Military Service During the Civil War (1870) | |
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Cherry Appeals for Equal Opportunity for Former Slaves (1865) | |
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a former Tennessee Slave, Declines His Former Master's Invitation to Return to His Plantation (1865) | |
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Major General Rufus Saxon Assesses the Freedmen's Aspirations (1866) | |
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Describes the Attitudes of Ex-Confederates Toward the Freedmen (1865) | |
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of South Carolina Asks for Land for the Freedmen (1868) | |
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The Rev. Is Attacked by the Ku Klux Klan (1872) | |
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a Former Arkansas Slave, Describes Sharecropping (1937) | |
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Assesses the Condition of the Freedmen (1880) | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |