Slave testimony : two centuries of letters, speeches, interviews, and autobiographies / edited by John W. Blassingame.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blassingame, John W., 1940-2000, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--Personal narratives.

Slavery.

United States.

Slavery--United States--History--Sources.

History.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Sources.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 777 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1977.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Letters, 1736-1864

Speeches, 1837-1862

Newspaper and Magazine Interviews, 1827-1863

American Freedman's Inquiry Commission Interviews, 1863

Newspaper and Magazine Interviews, 1864-1938

Interviews by Scholars, 1872-1938

Autobiographies Published in Periodicals and Books, 1838-1878.

Notes:

"Set in Mergenthaler VIP Caledonia."

"Designer: Albert Crochet."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is Louisiana Paperback L-81.

ISBN:

0807101842 :

0807102733 :

OCLC:

2331944