Cover of Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives

by · 1970

+ Want to read

Vivid, first-person accounts of what it was like to be a slave in the antebellum South recounted in simple, often poignant language.

Read more

Stark descriptions of the horrors of slave auctions, and many other unforgettable details of slave life. Accompanied by 32 compelling photographs and a new preface by the editor.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
slaveryslaveryMore like thisLess of thisAfrican AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thisAmerican historyAmerican historyMore like thisLess of this
Setting
civil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History · 1988 Shares history, slavery, nonfiction
  2. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom James H. Billington · 1998 Shares history, nonfiction, slavery
  3. My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Mary Frances Berry · 2005 Shares slavery, history, nonfiction
  4. The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt Patrick H. Breen · 2015 Shares nonfiction, slavery, history
See more recommendations →

“People who read Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Free onlineFree The Confessions of Nat Turner Nat Turner · 1831
  2. The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves Andrew Ward · 2008
  3. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism Marina Warner · 1981
  4. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America Sylviane A. Diouf · 2007

“If you want more of the same (history about slavery), start with these.”

  1. Slavery and the Making of America James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton · 2004
  2. The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion Stephen B. Oates · 1975
  3. Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Sylviane A. Diouf · 2013
  4. When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection · 2002

“If it was the slavery that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies John W. Blassingame · 1977
  2. Free onlineFree The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada Josiah Henson · 1849
  3. Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 T.H. Breen, Stephen Innes · 1980
  4. Denmark Vesey David M. Robertson · 1999

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction Linda Barrett Osborne · 2009
  2. Nettie's Trip South Ann Turner · 1948
  3. On the Auction Block Ashley Zacharias · 2014
  4. Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend Catherine Clinton · 1995

Report a problem