Annotated editiona of an important slave narrative first published in 1922. Written by William Henry Singleton, who has been a slave in Craven County, NC, this volume traces Singleton's years as a slave in antebellum North Carolina, His escape to Union-occupied territory during the Civil War, and his wartime service in the African Brigade.
' A Powerful True Story of a Child in Slavery on a Southern Plantation'Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days Recollections of a Happy Life By Annie L. BurtonThe memory of my happy, care-free childhood days on the plantation, with my little ...
Recollections of Slavery By A Runaway Slave The True Story of Sugar House, Charleston, South Carolina The Slave Torture House A Slave Narrative Serialized in The Emancipator in 1838 .....and then carried me to the Sugar House in Charleston.
NOTE TO THE READER: Please note that this is the LARGE PRINT EDITION of this title.
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days is a classic American slavery memoir by Annie L. Burton.
In presenting these pages to the public, but little explanation need be made, for they contain only the story of a slave, told as nearly as possible in his own words.
DIVMore than 2,000 former slaves provide first-person accounts in blunt, simple language about their lives in bondage. Illuminating, often startling information about southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. /div
FROM THE BOOK:The memory of my happy, care-free childhood days on the plantation, with my little white and black companions, is often with me.
FROM THE BOOK: "Those slaves that were not married served the food from the great house, and about half-past eleven they would send the older children with food to the workers in the fields.
Floggings, undernourishment, overwork, substandard housing, humiliation, physical and psychological abuse of every sort -- these were standard features of a slave's life in the American South for centuries until the...
The story begins in the 1840s with Johnson's earliest recollections of his father, Richard Yeager, of his mother, Jane Johnson (a slave used by Yeager as his wife), and of Ambrose and Eddie, Isaac's two brothers.