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Between the covers of Slave Testimony readers will find the largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak for themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, and shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, and the psychological response to bondage. The views given are those of house servants and field hands, docile slaves and rebels, urban slaves and rural slaves, slaves with kind masters and those with cruel ones. These wide-ranging documents, together with annotations, notes, an index, dozens of illustrations, and an incisive introduction, form a volume of unusual scope and character.
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James Allen
reviewed Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies on July 07, 2011 Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies
Despite my 40 years of reading, I had never read any of the testimonies from the slaves themselves, nor was I acutely aware that many had compiled narratives from letters, books, county records, church history, lawyers and Presidents.
This book "settled" my understanding of American history. It led me to do cross references and seek other authors who had documented similar information in their respective countries. The Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese and the French.
I was taken aback by the slave trade to Cuba. The comparisons between manumissions on the island and in America. Moreover, one can compare annotations through other books that mention a sliver of slave life in America. It is apparent that wherever the slaves were brought impacted dearly on their treatment. As well while some suffered unspeakable cruelties others were able to thrive and succeed despite the dark cloud of presumption of superiority by those whose grandfathers or fathers were immigrant themselves. Including Irish men who were indentured servants.
It is a painful but truthful observation of humanity in general. The scoundrels and the angels.
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