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Narrated by:
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David Goodloe
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By:
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Obinna Ilochonwu
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A gifted slave’s dramatic bid for freedom from the cotton plantations of the Deep South leads to far-reaching and unintended consequences in this moving tale.
Born enslaved in the 18th century, Fella finds no place for his genius, his thoughts, or his humanity in a time and place that deny him the most basic of rights. Thus, in a desperate act, he makes a bold, dramatic bid for freedom from the cotton plantations of the Deep South.
This dramatic short story is set in the days of slavery and interwoven within the fabric of real circumstances of the era to form a harrowing and hopeful tale. The moving account of this unusually gifted and witty slave parallels the history of cotton, considered “white gold” in the Southern states during the 18th and 19th century.
Poignant, melancholic, and powerful, this fast-moving tale focuses on Fella’s determined bid to be free from the shackles of captivity and the insufferable ideologies of slavery.
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Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. He was called both "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia" and is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!
- By Mama C on 03-05-11
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Harriett Tubman
- The Moses of Her People
- By: Sarah H. Bradford
- Narrated by: Jim Hodges
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 276
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
Historian Sarah Hopkins Bradford details the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was born into slavery but escaped to lead other enslaved people to freedom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shame on the Narration
- By erica mary on 06-17-20
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Clotel
- Or, The President's Daughter
- By: William Wells Brown
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One daughter, Clotel, is purchased by a white man from Virginia who impregnates her. Despite the promise of marriage, Clotel is instead sold to another man and separated from her daughter. After escaping from the slave dealer, Clotel returnss to Virginia to reunite with her daughter - now a slave in her father's house.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So Real the Feelings.
- By Anonymous User on 12-26-18
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
- By: Jared A. Brock
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Story5 out of 5 stars 73
This sweeping biography about the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials. The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson - a dynamic, driven man with exceptional intelligence and unyielding principles, who overcame incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book and very informative
- By plcd22 on 07-04-18
By: Jared A. Brock
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave - Related by Herself
- By: Mary Prince
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Whitewashed
- By Giavanna on 03-09-20
By: Mary Prince
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Lose Your Mother
- A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
- By: Saidiya Hartman
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!!
- By eric lewis on 02-19-24
By: Saidiya Hartman
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Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave
- By: William Wells Brown
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 120
"Brother, you have often declared that you would not end your days in slavery. I see no possible way in which you can escape with us; and now, brother, you are on a steamboat where there is some chance for you to escape to a land of liberty. I beseech you not to let us hinder you. If we cannot get our liberty, we do not wish to be the means of keeping you from a land of freedom."
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5 out of 5 stars
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EVERYONE!!!! Should Listen/Read This Story!!!!
- By BluBtrfly1 on 06-25-22
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Lighthouse
- By: Eugenia Price
- Narrated by: Tessa Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould could only imagine the beauty and warmth of the lands to the south. It was there that he longed to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. His gripping story unfolds as Gould follows his dream to the raw settlement of Bangor on the Penobscot River, St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, lawless Spanish East Florida, and back - at last and finally - to St. Simons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Re: Wonderful Story
- By Cmorgan on 01-27-23
By: Eugenia Price
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Master Slave Husband Wife
- An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
- By: Ilyon Woo
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 388
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding out in the open on steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary story well told!
- By Marc W Rhoades on 01-19-23
By: Ilyon Woo
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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Louis Gossett Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,961
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,588
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,584
In this riveting landmark autobiography, which reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York; Washington, D.C.; and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and 12 years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've waited for this a long time
- By Book Reader on 04-04-13
By: Solomon Northup
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Soul by Soul
- Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
- By: Walter Johnson
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking
- By Cathy Bown on 07-30-21
By: Walter Johnson
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The Black Holocaust for Beginners
- By: S.E. Anderson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 3 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story5 out of 5 stars 44
Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human beings were killed in the Black Holocaust - from the start of the European slave trade (c. 1500) to the Civil War (1865)? And how many were enslaved? The Black Holocaust, a travesty that killed millions of African human beings, is the most underreported major event in world history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye opener
- By Linda J. Taibi on 02-27-23
By: S.E. Anderson
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Golden Buddha
- By: Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,863
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,691
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,692
Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon - a state-of-the-art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler - takes him and his crew into dangerous waters as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Narrative
- By steve on 05-25-16
By: Clive Cussler, and others
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The Underground Railroad Records
- Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom
- By: William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates - introduction, Quincy T. Mills - editor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Sullivan Jones, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 112
As a conductor for the Underground Railroad - the covert resistance network created to aid and protect slaves seeking freedom - William Still helped as many as 800 people escape enslavement. He also meticulously collected the letters, biographical sketches, arrival memos, and ransom notes of the escapees. The Underground Railroad Records is an archive of primary documents that trace the narrative arc of the greatest, most successful campaign of civil disobedience in American history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Abridged by Two Thirds!
- By Chris on 06-24-20
By: William Still, and others
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- Carrie Wimmer
- 12-23-21
A few technical problems
Overall a great listen (other than the technical issues at the beginning of chapters 3 and 6). I did enjoy the story about a Black man who was mistakenly made a slave. He found a way to create the cotton gin. I wondered if the story was true. I struggled with the end when I couldn't follow the story after he died. That part was confusing. How did he die? Was he poisoned? Was that a heart attack? I wish I knew .
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