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Mia Ellis
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Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" was one of the first books to address the struggle for freedom by female slaves; explore their struggles with sexual harassment and abuse; and their effort to protect their roles as women and mothers. These memoirs tell the atrocious but true story of slavery in the United States until the Civil War. It is the personal history of Harriet Jacobs and her enslavement and following escape to the North, after spending seven years concealed in a crawlspace. The stunned listener also gets to know of the abuse of the other slaves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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hated the voice but the story was enlightening.
- By W. Battles on 06-22-22
By: Harriet Jacobs
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If Cotton Could Talk
- A Blackwashed 19th Century Pre-Civil War Fictional Story That Depicts The People, Tone And Events Of The Era.
- By: Alvin M. Hayes
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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If Cotton Could Talk," is a civil war era historical fiction novel about 19th-century slave life in the South. You will be introduced to a cast of characters; Black mothers and fathers who are fearless, smart, and devoted to family and justice. Heroes and heroines whose leadership gave enslaved people hope. But before freedom comes, they must survive other slaves who prove to be untrustworthy. At the same time ruthless, hostile, hateful men are determined to keep the status quo. Pre-Civil War, 1850, enslaved people could sense that their lives were going to change. Slaves reasoned that they...
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Historical overview brought to life
- By tresdadjsj on 03-21-25
By: Alvin M. Hayes
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Child Bride
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Smith Turner
- Narrated by: Joyce Licorish
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, 14-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women. She is fascinated with the prospect of being an independent person - but when she turns 16, she is married off and brought to the city of Boston as a bride. Nell is a shy girl who must quickly learn how to be a wife and mother. She quickly discovers that she must acquire new skills to navigate the unknown territory of the North, as well as her relationship with her husband, Henry, who is controlling and emotionally abusive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Novel!
- By Kindle Customer on 11-09-21
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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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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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Necessary story well told!
- By Marc W Rhoades on 01-19-23
By: Ilyon Woo
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Roots
- The Saga of an American Family
- By: Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 27 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible book
- By Randy on 06-30-23
By: Alex Haley
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The House Girl
- A Novel
- By: Tara Conklin
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. The year is 1852: Josephine is a 17-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm - an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: Art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Jeanette Finan on 02-21-13
By: Tara Conklin
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Southern Horrors & The Red Record (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, crusading African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett bravely reported on the scourge of white supremacist violence that had personally impacted her own life and work. Her reporting exposed and riled the South, enlightened uninformed Northerners, and captured international attention. Southern Horrors and The Red Record offer extensive accounts of the lynching, cruelty, and hate that African Americans faced in the early years of the Jim Crow South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So Courageous
- By eric lewis on 09-29-23
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The Yellow Wife
- A Novel
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Real page turner
- By Elizabeth Early on 01-19-21
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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A Woman of Endurance
- A Novel
- By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival, regeneration, and reclamation of common humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The difference in this book.
- By all our stories on 06-08-22
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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 3,969
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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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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a new edition of Twelve Years a Slave originally published in 1853 by Sampson Low, Son & Company, of London, England. A fascinating memoir of one man’s fight for survival and freedom after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in mid-19th-century America, this book is an essential reading for all lovers of English literature. Part of the project Immortal Literature Series of classic literature, this is a new edition of the classic work published in 1853 - not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and ...
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5 out of 5 stars
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True horrors of slavery
- By Linda on 12-31-24
By: Solomon Northup
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Up from Slavery
- By: Booker T. Washington
- Narrated by: Noah Waterman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,784
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Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper, and proponent of the "do-it-yourself" idea. In his autobiography, he describes his early life as a slave on a Virginia plantation, his steady rise during the Civil War, his struggle for education, his schooling at the Hampton Institute, and his years as founder and president of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which was devoted to helping minorities learn useful, marketable skills.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Best Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need
- By Gillian on 02-10-17
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite being born into slavery, Linda Brent enjoys a happy childhood - until the deaths of her parents and kind mistress leave her an orphan and the property of the lascivious Dr. Flint. Linda becomes the target of his unwanted advances, which she temporarily evades by bearing the children of another man. But when Dr. Flint threatens to sell her children unless she submits, Linda hatches a desperate plan to escape, working to secure her children's freedom as well as her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting. Time travel is possible...in the pages
- By Christina Talley on 06-08-18
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- Jason
- 05-20-23
excellent
inspiring story of perseverance, triumph and portrayal of the female experience in slavery with surprising directness
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- Doctor
- 05-28-23
This is true American History
This is the true history of America.
It is story of the truth that is untold
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- Tonya Flowers
- 05-17-23
Fantastic
It was well written. Really greatly enjoyed it. To read it. Thank you so very much.
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- Mcdiledo
- 06-10-23
Captivating
Truly heartbreaking to hear the horrors that African Americans suffered in those days. The resilience of Linda is beyond comprehension.
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- Tina
- 04-06-24
True to Life testimony
Loved this book. One of my favorite because the true accounts of American history. This is how we heal.
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- Lynne Cheeks
- 11-15-24
The voice of the person that was narrating the story just captured you and held you
This story seems to be a full accurate account of the life of a slave girl.The way it was told the language the mannerisms of speech was so moving and believableave a bowl definitely an excellent read
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- Audrey
- 06-23-20
very accessible and important book!
A very important book. I am so glad that I have finally read it. Seeing slavery on the inside makes our nation's history real.
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- Tia
- 08-24-21
Starts slow but makes up for it.
It starts off slow but makes up for it by the end of the tale. I’ve read a lot of slave narratives and this author shares the harrowing events of the time in a manner that is both eloquent while remaining vivid.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-25-21
speechless.
it's heart breaking to see what we ( black women) had to endure during these terrible times. It only shows our strength, and determination throughout these years, that we are STILL HERE FIGHTING!! I loved this read!!
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- Theresa Collins
- 06-23-24
Hard truths about the Evil of Slavery
Eloquently written, first hand description of the reality for slaves. At times, the retelling of incidents in Harriet Jacob’s life were difficult to hear. However, this is the history that needs to be heard. Harriet’s writing is equally as good, if not better than those who received formal education.
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