Bullwhip days : the slaves remember, an oral history edited and with an introduction by James Mellon

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mellon, James, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slaves--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Avon Books, 1990, ©1988.

Summary:

Contains primary source material.

Contents:

Narratives / Georgia Baker; Mary Reynolds; Katie Rowe

Voices: Slave children, food and cooking, stealing, and fading remembrances of Africa

Narratives / Thomas Cole; William Adams; Fanny Cannady

Voices: Ghosts and conjuring

Narratives / Charley Williams; Jack and Rosa Maddox; Rose Williams

Voices: Plantation life, poor white folks, classes of slaves, patrollers, Christmas on the plantation, dancing, corn-shuckings, hog-killings, music, slave marriages,

And forced breeding

Narratives / Calvin Moye; Isaac Stier; Charlie Moses

Voices: Religion and education

Narratives / Rachel Cruze; Jacob Manson; Martin Jackson; Josh Horn

Voices: Bullwhip days

Narratives / George Fleming; Arnold Gragson; Cato Carter; Elmo Steele

Voices: slave auctions, forced breeding, rape, and runaways

Narratives / John Crawford; Lulu Wilson; William Moore

Voices: the Civil War and statutory freedom

Narratives / Neal Upson;

Charlie Davenport; Ellen Betts

Voices: the Reconstruction era, sharecropping, voting, and the Ku Klux Klan

Narratives / Mary Grayson; William Colbert; Mollie Dawson

Voices: the younger generation, reflections and conclusions.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Bullwhip days.

ISBN:

0380708841

9780380708840

OCLC:

22186874