Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews and Autobiographies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807101842 ISBN 13: 9780807101841

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1977

Synopsis

Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, and shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, and the psychological response to bondage. The views given are those of house servants and field hands, docile slaves and rebels, urban slaves and rural slaves, slaves with kind masters and those with cruel ones. These wide-ranging documents, together with annotations, notes, an index, dozens of illustrations, and an incisive introduction, form a volume of unusual scope and character.

About the Author

John W. Blassingame (1940--2000) was a professor of history at Yale University, the author of The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South and Black New Orleans, 1860--1880, and the editor of six volumes of The Papers of Frederick Douglass.

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807101842
• ISBN 13: 9780807101841
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 843
• Editor: Blassingame John W.