The House of Bondage Or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves

by Albert, Octavia V. Rogers; Foster, Frances Smith

• ISBN13: 9780195067842
• ISBN10: 0195067843
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-05-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Setting out to correct the inaccuracies of most previously written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert presents the personal narratives of former slaves, along with her own incisive commentary. Like many antebellum slave narratives, her early interviews depictcruel punishments, divided families, and the debilitating effects of unusuallly harsh labor. But as Albert came to see herself as a public advocate for social change, her focus shifted to the condition and progress of former slaves. The later interviews reflect her insistence that every Christianpersonally take some responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note	p. vi
Foreword: In Her Own Write	p. vii
A Note from the Schomburg Center	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. xxvii
Works Cited	p. xlii
Preface	p. xlvii
Introduction	p. liii
The Author	p. lvii
Charlotte Brooks	p. 1
Charlotte's Story	p. 7
Aunt Charlotte's Friends	p. 14
Cruel Masters	p. 21
Great Tribulations	p. 27
A Kind Mistress	p. 35
Broken-Down Freedmen	p. 42
The Curse of Whisky	p. 49
John and Lorendo	p. 57
A Converted Catholic	p. 65
Prison Horrors	p. 75
Sallie Smith's Story	p. 86
In the Woods	p. 94
Uncle Stephen Jordon	p. 101
Counterfeit Free Papers	p. 109
Uncle Cephas's Story	p. 119
A Colored Soidier	p. 129
Negro Government	p. 138
The Colored Delegates	p. 148
A Touching Incident	p. 156
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