African American Voices

A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that
places American slavery in comparative perspective.

• Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the
  history of slavery in America

• Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews
  with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document
  the experience of bondage

• Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection

• A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the
  written documents

• Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay

Auteur
Steven Mintz is Professor of History and Director, American Cultures Program, at the University of Houston. His thirteen books include Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988; co-authored with Susan Kellogg); and a major interpretation of antebellum reform, Moralists & Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995). His most recent book, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood, received the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians 2004 Merle Curti Award for the best book in social history; and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 2004.

Texte du rabat
Including more than 70 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. It presents 250 years of the collective life-cycle of an enslaved people through substantial excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters that document the experience of bondage, and supplies comprehensive introductions and headnotes, a visual history of slavery, and an extensive bibliography.

Résumé
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.

• Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America

• Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage

• Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection

• A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents

• Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay

Contenu

List of Figures x

Series Editors' Preface xi

Preface to the New Edition xiii

Preface xv

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 ''Death's Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hands on Me'': Enslavement 40

1 A European Slave Trader, John Barbot, Describes the African Slave Trade (1682) 42

2 A Muslim Merchant, Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, Recalls His Capture and Enslavement (1733) 45

3 An Employee of Britain's Royal African Company Describes the Workings of the Slave Trade (1738) 48

4 Olaudah Equiano, an 11-Year-Old Ibo from Nigeria, Remembers His Kidnapping into Slavery (1789) 49

5 A Scottish Explorer, Mungo Park, Offers a Graphic Account of the African Slave Trade (1797) 51

6 Venture Smith Relates the Story of His Kidnapping at the Age of Six (1798) 52

Chapter 2 ''God's A-Gwineter Trouble de Water'': The Middle Passage and Arrival 57

1 A European Slave Trader, James Barbot, Jr., Describes a Shipboard Revolt by Enslaved Africans (1700) 59

2 Olaudah Equiano, Who Was Born in Eastern Nigeria, Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage (1789) 62

3 A Doctor, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes Conditions on an English Slaver (1788) 65

4 Olaudah Equiano Describes His Arrival in the New World (1789) 70

5 An English Physician, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes the Treatment of Newly Arrived Slaves in the West Indies (1788) 71

Chapter 3 ''A Change is Gonna Come'': Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution 74

1 The Poet Phillis Wheatley Writes about Freedom and Equal Rights (1774) 75

2 Massachusetts Slaves Petition for Freedom (1774) 76

3 Virginia's Royal Governor Promises Freedom to Slaves Who Join the British Army (1775) 78

4 Virginia's Assembly Denounces Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775) 79

5 Connecticut Slaves Petition for Freedom (1779) 80

6 Boston King, a Black Loyalist, Seeks Freedom Behind British Lines (1798) 82

7 A Participant in Gabriel's Rebellion Explains Why He Took Part in the Attempted Insurrection (1812) 84

8 Gabriel's Brother Explains the Rebellion's Objectives (1800) 84

9 President Thomas Jefferson Tries to Arrange for the Deportation of Men Involved in Gabriel's Rebellion (1802) 85

Chapter 4 ''We Raise de Wheat, Dey Gib Us de Corn'': Conditions of Life 87

1 A Free Black Kidnapped from New York, Solomon Northrup, Describes the Working Conditions of Slaves on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation (1853) 88

2 Charles Ball, a Slave in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia, Compares Working Conditions on Tobacco
and Cotton Plantations (1858) 89

3 Josiah Henson, a Maryland Slave, Describes Slave Housing, Diet, and Clothing (1877) 91

4 Francis Henderson, Who Was a Slave near Washington, D.C., Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (1856) 93

5 A South Carolina Slave, Jacob Stroyer, Recalls the Material Conditions of Slave Life (1898) 94

6 A Former Virginia Slave, James Martin, Remembers a Slave Auction (1937) 95

7 Elizabeth Keckley, Born into Slavery in Virginia, Describes a Slave Sale (1868) 96

Chapter 5 ''Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'': Visual History of Slavery 98

1 The Inspection and Sale of an African Captive Along the West African Coast (1854) 99

2 An Illustration of the Layout of a Slave Ship (1807) 100

3 Enslaved Africans on the Deck of a Slave Ship (1860) 102

4 Two Slave Sale Advertisements (1859, c.1780s) 103

5 A Fugitive Slave Advertisement (1774) 105

6 An Illustration of a Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia (1856) 107

7 Five Generations of a Slave Family (c.1850s) 108

8 An Engraving Illustrating Nat Turner's Insurrection (c.1831) 109

9 A Plantation Manual Offers Detailed Instructions to Overseers about How They Are to Treat Nursing Mothers (18571858) 110

10 African Americans in Baltimore Celebrate the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, Extending the Vote to Black Men (1870) 111

Chapter 6 ''O Mother Don't You Weep'': Women, Children, and Families 114

1 Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Efforts to Escape Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuse (1861) 115 2 Bethany Veney Descri...