The Slavery of Our Times

The Slavery of Our Times
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The Slavery of Our Times is a socially critical pamphlet written by Tolstoy in 1900. In this work, Tolstoy describes the miserable situation of the laborers in the plants of Russia. He writes that people work for thirty-six hours in succession and suffer from the tyranny exerted by their masters. In the pamphlet, Tolstoy demands the conditions of a decent life be created for those people.

Slave Songs of the United States

Slave Songs of the United States
Author: William Francis Allen
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1996
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 1557094349

Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell, as the sufferers themselves could, of crushed hopes, keen sorrow, and a dull, daily misery, which covered them as hopelessly as the fog from the rice swamps. On the other hand, the words breathe a trusting faith in the life after, to which their eyes seem constantly turned.

Working With the Hands

Working With the Hands
Author: Booker T. Washington
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book was written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, an African-American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. This book provides his insights on the value of industrial training and the methods employed to develop it.

Slavery and the Bible. a Tract for the Times

Slavery and the Bible. a Tract for the Times
Author: Schaff Philip
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780526574629

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Fifty Years in Chains

Fifty Years in Chains
Author: Charles Ball
Publisher:
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1858
Genre: Slavery
ISBN:

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer inhumane conditions. He recounts the qualities of his various masters and the ways in which his fortune depended on their temperament. As slave narrative scholar William L. Andrews has noted, Ball's oft-repeated narrative directly influenced the manner and matter of later fugitive slave.

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 0684856573

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195060843

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.