From Bondage to Belonging
«Eugene McCarthy and Thomas Doughton have done a great service in collecting and editing these stories, for taken together they give us a vivid sense of what it felt like to be a slave. Here are people enduring and witnessing countless scenes of subjection; living in constant fear; feeling alienated from family, friends, community, and self; and struggling to hang onto dreams of freedom, only to discover that life after slavery is much different than freedom's dream. Read these stories straight through, and you will find yourself emotionally exhausted. They are that powerful. - John Stauffer, Harvard University, from the Foreword»
This is a rare set of personal accounts by eight ex-slaves who settled in the same northern community. First published between 1842 and 1895, the autobiographical narratives gathered in this volume document the experiences of eight former slaves who eventually took up residence in Worcester, Massachusetts. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781558496231
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
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«Eugene McCarthy and Thomas Doughton have done a great service in collecting and editing these stories, for taken together they give us a vivid sense of what it felt like to be a slave. Here are people enduring and witnessing countless scenes of subjection; living in constant fear; feeling alienated from family, friends, community, and self; and struggling to hang onto dreams of freedom, only to discover that life after slavery is much different than freedom's dream. Read these stories straight through, and you will find yourself emotionally exhausted. They are that powerful. - John Stauffer, Harvard University, from the Foreword»