The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C
Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN:

This book is a powerful autobiography penned by Lunsford Lane, an African-American entrepreneur tobacconist from North Carolina who bought freedom for himself and his family. His life and narrative shows the plight of slavery, even for the relatively privileged slaves.

North Carolina Slave Narratives

North Carolina Slave Narratives
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-05-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807876755

The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C
Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2022-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C" by Lunsford Lane. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807888850

It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.

A Muslim American Slave

A Muslim American Slave
Author: Omar Ibn Said
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0299249530

Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N. C

The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N. C
Author: Lunsford Lane
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2019-01-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781397257765

Excerpt from The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N. C: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family From Slavery, and His Banishment From the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin It has not been any part of my object to describe slave ry generally, and in the narration of my own case I have dwelt as little as possible upon the dark side - have spoken mostly of the bright. In whatever I have been obliged to say unfavorable to others, I have endeavored not-to over state, but have chosen rather to come short of giving the full picture - omitting much which it did not seem import ant to my object to relate. And yet I would not venture to say that this publication does not contain a single period which might be twisted to convey an idea more than should be expressed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.