Till freedom cried out : memories of Texas slave life / edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker ; illustrated by Kermit Oliver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, T. Lindsay, editor.

Baker, Julie P. (Julie Philips), 1943- editor.

Oliver, Kermit, 1943- artist, illustrator.

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

Series:

Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 6.

The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Texas--Interviews.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Texas--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Plantation life--Texas--History--19th century.

Plantation life.

Oral history.

History.

Interviews.

Texas--History--To 1846.

Texas.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Baker, T. Lindsay (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Baker, Julie P. (Julie Philips), 1943- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 162 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 1997.

Summary:

This account, recorded as part of the Federal Writers' Project, describes life as a Texas slave - the family relations, entertainment, religion, work on the plantations, food-ways, and punishment. For decades the bondage of black slaves to white masters was part of everyday life in Texas, and by the eve of the Civil War almost one-third of the total population consisted of slaves. Most works about slavery have been written from the white viewpoint, since most slaves were kept illiterate. This collection offers a clear-eyed perspective on this institution from the slaves themselves - their recollections from being sold away from their parents, suffering the pain of the overseers' lash, and being chosen to gratify masters' desires, to finding emotional release in religious services, appreciating music and dancing, and enjoying a brief escape to the woods. Vignettes of daily life are sensitively brought to life in the skilled drawings of artist Kermit Oliver. Enriched by these illustrations and by an introduction and postscript commentary by editors T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, Till Freedom Cried Out presents vivid memories of lives and times inside the bonds of an institution that tried to break the tellers' bodies and souls.

Contents:

Narratives. L. B. Barner/Lewis Bonner. Francis [Frances] Bridges. Esther Easter. Eliza Elsey. Lizzie Farmer. Sonny Greer. Mattie Hardman. George W. Harmon. Annie Hawkins. Ida Henry. Lewis Jenkins. Mary Lindsay. Bert Luster. Allen V. Manning. Bob Maynard. Amanda Oliver. Noah Perry. Phyllis Petite. Alice Rawlings. Red Richardson. Harriett Robinson. Andrew Simms. Liza Smith. Lou Smith. Mose Smith. J. W. Stinnett. Beauregard Tenneyson. Johnson Thompson. Mollie Watson. Easter Wells. John White. Acemy Wofford

Commentary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-150) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has autographs of T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker.

ISBN:

0890967369

OCLC:

35331308