Download or read book The Slave s Diary written by Kenneth R. Mcclelland and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young African boy named Kimbo was kidnapped while on a hunt with his father. From the jungle, he's taken to a trading post, an island slave stronghold, and then he's sold to a company that sends him through the Slave Trade Triangle on a cramped ship bound for America. The ship suffers a storm, a mutiny, and many needless deaths, but Kimbo survives the journey, only to be sold as property to various owners in nineteenth-century Virginia. Eventually, he gains his freedom, through the help of a minister. On his journey to freedom, Kimbo escapes captivity, rescues a lost white girl, gets caught by a paddy roller, and eventually finds real freedom at the cross. With the help of the American Colonization Society, he returns to Liberia, Africa, with most of his family, to carry out his ministry. The Slave's Diary is the story of a man who chronicled his life as a slave in America, going from master to master, but making friends during his trials wherever he finds them, and finally gaining his freedom through a minister who helps him adjust to life as a free man.
Download or read book Mastery Tyranny and Desire written by Trevor Burnard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system.
Download or read book A Picture of Freedom written by Pat McKissack and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover.
Download or read book The Slave s Diary written by Kenneth McClelland and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on his first hunt with his father, a young boy named Kimbo is kidnapped out of Africa to become a slave in 19th century Virginia. Sold like property to various plantation owners, one day he makes his escape from a master who's forcing him to fight another slave named Barnyard Willie.In the midst of his escape he manages to rescue a lost little white girl he finds in the woods. Soon captured by the sheriff and sold to a paddy roller, he ends up with a master who tries to kill him. Kimbo is finally redeemed when a white preacher steps in to show him what true freedom really is.Here's an excerpt from this award winning book:"Loud noises were coming from the other side of the hull beside where I was leaning, perhaps the anchor being pulled from the water and onto the deck. I felt the large ship begin to move to the left and then the right as they turned the ship in their attempt to steer it into the wind which seemed to keep changing direction. We moved through the water slowly at first, but once we were pointed in the right direction, it felt like we were racing across the water. Then suddenly, the ship leaned hard to the left, away from me, as the captain turned it again towards the ever shifting winds.This sent many of us crashing into the person on the other side of the bench we were on as we were driven by the forces of nature to lean into him. One man cried out in agony as the weight of two dozen slaves from our row leaned hard against him. I braced myself because I was on the other side and expected it would be just moments before we'd be tossed the other way, with me on the painful end. But the ship found its direction and gradually eased into a more upright position, allowing me to relax for a while.The ship swayed gently back and forth as her full sails held fast to the wind, carrying us very swiftly over the ocean waters. But that was soon to change. The men who were at first sobbing had now stopped, and the poor man we'd crushed earlier finally quit groaning from the pain he suffered from it. It was quiet for a little while, aside from the noises the ship made as it skipped along. You could hear the ropes snap and pop now and then as they strained to hold the sails taut, while the deck and side boards creaked loudly all around us, almost in rhythm as they strained to hold each other in place.We could tell that the winds were picking up as the cloth sails began slapping back and forth as the winds blew them in one direction and then quickly into another. All the while they were driving us faster and further away from our homes, but to where, not a one of us knew. The once gentle motion of the ship was now roughly tossing us all back and forth. Many were getting sick again and the hold filled with the sounds of sickness and the rank smell of vomit that mixed with the other odors. I quickly joined the sick even though I had not eaten for almost two days.The door above us opened for just a moment, long enough to let in some amount of light that hurt our eyes, which by then had grown accustomed to the darkness. It was a welcome, though brief relief, as it also let in a sudden rush of fresh air to help drive away the smells. Yet with it also came the sounds of the fierce winds howling and screaming outside of the ship, which filled our ears and strengthened our fears.A white man came down the steps to us carrying a lantern, holding it up high to see that we were all still in our places, and then he quickly went back up the stairs through the door and closed it tightly behind him. Sea-water washed in from the deck above us from beneath the door. The ship leaned hard to one side and then to the other as wave after wave threw itself against us. Many of those with me were crying out in their own languages, perhaps seeking mercy, perhaps seeking death. Someone in the darkness cried out in my language that we were all going to die, while another laughed out loud as if to imply that his god was angry..."
Download or read book Seminole Diary written by Dolores Johnson and published by Atheneum. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful story of an escaped slave family that unites with the Seminole Indians and marches with them to the Oklahoma territory on the memorable Trail of Tears is a rarely told, but poignant part of history. Rich, impressionistic paintings reflect the special relationship between these two groups of people, and passionately chronicle this period. Full color.
Download or read book Harvest Time written by Taylor Worthy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a saga of one family’s life on a plantation, and is based on a true story. Slavery is part of American history. It is recorded in the history books. This story, then,is about the way slavery affected the author’s family. From the beginning, in Virginia, to its conclusion, in Madison County, Mississippi, it tells vividly of the trials and tribulations of life as slaves for this family. There were good times, hard times, joys, and sorrows, much like life today.
Download or read book Trafficked written by Sibel Hodge and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trafficked : the diary of a sex slave is a gritty, gripping, and tear-jerking novella, inspired by real victims' accounts and research into the sex trafficking underworld."--From back cover.
Download or read book Roman Diary written by Richard Platt and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Platt’s previous ‘diaries’ about castles, pirates, and ancient Egypt, this offers an accessible introduction to history." — Booklist Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that’s where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona’s eyes—the luxury, the excess, and the politics. Back matter includes notes for the reader, a glossary, and sources.
Download or read book A Picture of Freedom written by Pat McKissack and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Download or read book A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War written by Charlotte L. Forten and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Charlotte Forten, a sixteen-year-old free African American who lived in Massachusettts in 1854 who records her schooling, participation in the anti-slavery movement, and concern for an arrested fugitive slave. Includes activities and a timeline related to this era.
Download or read book Emilie Davis s Civil War written by Judith Giesberg and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Download or read book The Diary of Antera Duke written by Stephen D. Behrendt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his diary, Antera Duke (ca.1735-ca.1809) wrote the only surviving eyewitness account of the slave trade by an African merchant. A leader in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar, a cluster of Efik-speaking communities in the Cross River region, he resided in Duke Town, forty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean in what is now southeast Nigeria. His diary, written in trade English from 1785 to 1788, is a candid account of daily life in an African community at the height of Calabar's overseas commerce. It provides valuable information on Old Calabar's economic activity both with other African businessmen and with European ship captains who arrived to trade for slaves, produce, and provisions. This new edition of Antera's diary, the first in fifty years, draws on the latest scholarship to place the diary in its historical context. Introductory essays set the stage for the Old Calabar of Antera Duke's lifetime, explore the range of trades, from slaves to produce, in which he rose to prominence, and follow Antera on trading missions across an extensive commercial hinterland. The essays trace the settlement and development of the towns that comprised Old Calabar and survey the community's social and political structure, rivalries among families, sacrifices of slaves, and witchcraft ordeals. This edition reproduces Antera's original trade-English diary with a translation into standard English on facing pages, along with extensive annotation. The Diary of Antera Duke furnishes a uniquely valuable source for the history of precolonial Nigeria and the Atlantic slave trade, and this new edition enriches our understanding of it.
Download or read book Secret and Sacred written by James Henry Hammond and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphs and travails of a leading antebellum politician. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Freeborn Slave written by Jasper Rastus Nall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Jasper Nall was transfixed by the stories his mother and grandmother told - stories of the family's origins and plantation life in Alabama and the Carolinas. These he recorded with his own recollections in this series of dictated memoirs transcribed by his daughter Maude in 1936.
Download or read book I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly written by Joyce Hansen and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
Download or read book Freedom s Wings written by Sharon Dennis Wyeth and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My America series-Corey #1/Underground Railroad.
Download or read book Slave Girl written by Patricia C. McKissack and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
