Unmasking the Silence - 17 Powerful Slave Narratives in One Edition. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу

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СКАЧАТЬ Bury Newsome, (free,) Sent on for further trial. Stephen James Bell, Acquitted. Jim and Isaac, Samuel Champion, Convicted and trans'd. Preston, Hannah Williamson, Acquitted. Frank, Solomon D. Parker, Convi'd and transp'd. Jack and Shadrach, Nathaniel Simmons, Acquitted. Nelson, Benj. Blunt's estate, Do. Sam, Peter Edwards, Convicted. Archer, Arthur G. Reese, Acquitted. Isham Turner, (free,) Sent on for further trial. Nat Turner, Putnam Moore, dec'd, Convicted.

      Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (Sojourner Truth)

       Table of Contents

       HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE

       ACCOMMODATIONS

       HER BROTHERS AND SISTERS

       HER RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION

       THE AUCTION

       DEATH OF MAU-MAU BETT

       LAST DAYS OF BOMEFREE

       DEATH OF BOMEFREE

       COMMENCEMENT OF ISABELLA'S TRIALS IN LIFE

       TRIALS CONTINUED

       HER STANDING WITH HER NEW MASTER AND MISTRESS

       ISABELLA'S MARRIAGE

       ISABELLA AS A MOTHER

       SLAVEHOLDER'S PROMISES

       HER ESCAPE

       ILLEGAL SALE OF HER SON

       IT IS OFTEN DARKEST JUST BEFORE DAWN

       DEATH OF MRS. ELIZA FOWLER

       ISABELLA'S RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

       NEW TRIALS

       MY DEAR AND BELOVED MOTHER

       FINDING A BROTHER AND SISTER

       GLEANINGS

       THE MATTHIAS DELUSION

       FASTING

       THE CAUSE OF HER LEAVING THE CITY

       THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSING A TRAVELLER A NIGHT'S LODGING

       SOME OF HER VIEWS AND REASONINGS

       THE SECOND ADVENT DOCTRINES

       ANOTHER CAMP MEETING

       HER LAST INTERVIEW WITH HER MASTER

       CERTIFICATES OF CHARACTER

      HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE

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      THE subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself-but whose name, originally, was Isabella-was born, as near as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She was the daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley, Ulster County, New York.

      Colonel Ardinburgh belonged to that class of people called Low Dutch.

      Of her first master, she can give no account, as she must have been a mere infant when he died; and she, with her parents and some ten or twelve other fellow human chattels, became the legal property of his son, Charles Ardinburgh. She distinctly remembers hearing her father and mother say, that their СКАЧАТЬ