The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves / Octavia V. Rogers Albert ; with an introduction by Frances Smith Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.

Contributor:

Foster, Frances Smith, writer of introduction.

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

Series:

Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers

Standardized Title:

House of bondage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889.

Albert, Octavia V. Rogers.

Enslaved women--United States--Biography.

Enslaved women.

United States.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Social conditions.

Enslaved persons--Social conditions.

Genre:

Biographies.

Slave narratives.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xliii, xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 161 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

House of bondage.

Charlotte Brooks and other slaves.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Summary:

'Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert added her own incisive commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves, and called for every Christian's personal acceptance of responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons.' -- Details from publisher.

Contents:

I. Charlotte Brooks

II. Charlotte's Story

III. Aunt Charlotte's Friends

IV. Cruel masters

V. Great Tribulations

VI. A kind mistress

VII. Broken-down freedmen

VIII. The curse of Whiskey

IX John and Lorendo

X. A converted Catholic

XI. Prison horrors

XII. Sallie Smith's story

XIII. In the Woods

XIV. Uncle Stephen Jordon

XV. Counterfeit free papers

XVI. Uncle Cephas's story

XVII. A colored soldier

XVIII. Negro government

XIX. The Colored Delegates

XX. A Touching Incident.

Notes:

"Whenever possible, the volumes in this set were reproduced directly from original materials. When availability, physical condition of original texts, or other circumstances prohibited this, volumes or portions of volumes were reset."--Publisher's Note.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Hunt & Eaton, 1890.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xlii-xliii).

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1989

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0195052633

9780195052633

0195052676

9780195052671

0195067843

9780195067842

OCLC:

16682214