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Book Synopsis Enslavement in Memphis by : G Wayne Dowdy
Download or read book Enslavement in Memphis written by G Wayne Dowdy and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first forty-five years of the city's existence, slavery dominated the cultural and economic life of Memphis. The lives of enslaved people reveal the brutality, and their perseverance contributed greatly to the city's growth. Henry Davidson played a crucial role in the development of the city's first Methodist church and worship services for slaves. Mary Herndon was purchased by Nathan Bedford Forrest and sold to Louis Fortner, for whom she was put to work in the field, where she chopped cotton, plowed it and did everything any other slave done. Thomas Bland secretly learned to read and write from a skilled slave and later used that knowledge to escape to Canada. Author G. Wayne Dowdy uncovers the forgotten people who built Memphis and the American South.
Book Synopsis Enslavement in Memphis by : G. Wayne Dowdy
Download or read book Enslavement in Memphis written by G. Wayne Dowdy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first forty-five years of the city's existence, slavery dominated the cultural and economic life of Memphis. The lives of enslaved people reveal the brutality, and their perseverance contributed greatly to the city's growth. Henry Davidson played a crucial role in the development of the city's first Methodist church and worship services for slaves. Mary Herndon was purchased by Nathan Bedford Forrest and sold to Louis Fortner, for whom she was put to work in the field, where she "chopped cotton, plowed it and did everything any other slave done." Thomas Bland secretly learned to read and write from a skilled slave and later used that knowledge to escape to Canada. Author G. Wayne Dowdy uncovers the forgotten people who built Memphis and the American South.
Book Synopsis "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis " by : EarnestineLovelle Jenkins
Download or read book "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis " written by EarnestineLovelle Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: from Slavery to Jim Crow presents a rich interpretation of African American visual culture. Using Victorian era photographs, engravings, and pictorial illustrations from local and national archives, this unique study examines intersections of race and image within the context of early African American communities. It emphasizes black agency, looking at how African Americans in Memphis manipulated the power of photography in the creation of free identities. Blacks are at the center of a study that brings to light how wide-ranging practices of photography were linked to racialized experiences in the American south following the Civil War. Jenkins' book connects the social history of photography with the fields of visual culture, art history, southern studies, gender, and critical race studies.
Book Synopsis Thirty Years a Slave by : Louis Hughes
Download or read book Thirty Years a Slave written by Louis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Hughes was born in Virginia (1832), but was sold (1844) in the Richmond slave market to a cotton planter and his wife who lived on the Mississippi River. Later, he traveled with them to their new home in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent time during the Civil War in Alabama. Hughes made five attempts to escape, alone and with his wife and friends, but he and his wife succeeded in finding freedom only after Emancipation. Eventually, after reuniting with several members of their family and seeking a livelihood in various Southern, Midwestern and Canadian cities (Memphis, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Windsor, Detroit, Chicago, and Cleveland), they settled in Milwaukee, where Hughes became a nurse, drawing on skills he had developed while treating the illnesses of his fellow slaves. Thirty Years a Slave provides a great deal of information about the complex relationships between slaves and masters, along with graphic accounts of the physical abuse slaves endured, and details about slave markets, slave religion, and the organization of plantation work. Hughes also remembers the desire for learning he felt when he was a slave and recalls the varied tasks he performed in his masters' households.
Book Synopsis American Slavery as it is by : Theodore Dwight Weld
Download or read book American Slavery as it is written by Theodore Dwight Weld and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remembering the Memphis Massacre by : Beverly Greene Bond
Download or read book Remembering the Memphis Massacre written by Beverly Greene Bond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic, cultural, class, and gender tensions rocketing to new heights. For three days, a mob of white men roamed through South Memphis, leaving a trail of blood, rubble, and terror in their wake. By May 3, at least forty-six African American men, women, and children and two white men lay dead. An unknown number of black people had been driven out of the city. Every African American church and schoolhouse lay in ruins, homes and businesses burglarized and burned, and at least five women had been raped. As a federal military commander noted in the days following, “what [was] called the ‘riot’” was “in reality [a] massacre” of extended proportions. It was also a massacre whose effects spread far beyond Memphis, Tennessee. As the essays in this collection reveal, the massacre at Memphis changed the trajectory of the post–Civil War nation. Led by recently freed slaves who refused to be cowed and federal officials who took their concerns seriously, the national response to the horror that ripped through the city in May 1866 helped to shape the nation we know today. Remembering the Memphis Massacre brings this pivotal moment and its players, long hidden from all but specialists in the field, to a public that continues to feel the effects of those three days and the history that made them possible.
Book Synopsis Birthing a Slave by : Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Download or read book Birthing a Slave written by Marie Jenkins Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.
Book Synopsis Thirty Years a Slave by : Louis Hughes
Download or read book Thirty Years a Slave written by Louis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Hughes was born in Virginia (1832), but was sold (1844) in the Richmond slave market to a cotton planter and his wife who lived on the Mississippi River. Later, he traveled with them to their new home in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent time during the Civil War in Alabama. Hughes made five attempts to escape, alone and with his wife and friends, but he and his wife succeeded in finding freedom only after Emancipation. Eventually, after reuniting with several members of their family and seeking a livelihood in various Southern, Midwestern and Canadian cities (Memphis, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Windsor, Detroit, Chicago, and Cleveland), they settled in Milwaukee, where Hughes became a nurse, drawing on skills he had developed while treating the illnesses of his fellow slaves. Thirty Years a Slave provides a great deal of information about the complex relationships between slaves and masters, along with graphic accounts of the physical abuse slaves endured, and details about slave markets, slave religion, and the organization of plantation work. Hughes also remembers the desire for learning he felt when he was a slave and recalls the varied tasks he performed in his masters' households.
Book Synopsis Worse Than Slavery by : David M. Oshinsky
Download or read book Worse Than Slavery written by David M. Oshinsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.
Book Synopsis Thirty Years A Slave by : Louis Hughes
Download or read book Thirty Years A Slave written by Louis Hughes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Thirty Years A Slave by Louis Hughes
Book Synopsis "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis " by : EarnestineLovelle Jenkins
Download or read book "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis " written by EarnestineLovelle Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis: from Slavery to Jim Crow presents a rich interpretation of African American visual culture. Using Victorian era photographs, engravings, and pictorial illustrations from local and national archives, this unique study examines intersections of race and image within the context of early African American communities. It emphasizes black agency, looking at how African Americans in Memphis manipulated the power of photography in the creation of free identities. Blacks are at the center of a study that brings to light how wide-ranging practices of photography were linked to racialized experiences in the American south following the Civil War. Jenkins' book connects the social history of photography with the fields of visual culture, art history, southern studies, gender, and critical race studies."--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Race, Representation and Photography in 19th-century Memphis by : Earnestine Jenkins
Download or read book Race, Representation and Photography in 19th-century Memphis written by Earnestine Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biography of a Slave: Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson by : Rev. Charles Thompson
Download or read book Biography of a Slave: Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson written by Rev. Charles Thompson and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was a slave, and was born in Atala County, Mississippi, near the town of Rockford, on the third day of March, 1833. My father and mother both being slaves, of course my pedigree is not traceable, by me, farther back than my parents. Our family belonged to a man named Kirkwood, who was a large slave-owner. Kirkwood died when I was about nine years old, after which, upon the settlement of the affairs of his estate, the slaves belonging to the estate were divided equally, as to value, among the six heirs. There were about seventy-five slaves to be divided into six lots; and great was the tribulation among the poor blacks when they learned that they were to be separated. When the division was completed two of my sisters and myself were cast into one lot, my mother into another, and my father into another, and the rest of the family in the other lots. Young and slave as I was, I felt the pang of separation from my loved and revered mother; child that I was I mourned for mother, even before our final separation, as one dead to me forever. So early to be deprived of a fond mother, by the "law," gave me my first view of the curse of slavery. Until this time I did not know what trouble was, but from then until the tocsin of freedom was sounded through the glorious Emancipation Proclamation by the immortal Abraham Lincoln, I passed through hardship after hardship, in quick succession, and many, many times I have almost seen and tasted death. I bade farewell to my mother, forever, on this earth. Oh! the pangs of that moment. Even after thirty years have elapsed the scene comes vividly to my memory as I write. A gloomy, dark cloud seemed to pass before my vision, and the very air seemed to still with awfulness. I felt bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, lost. Put yourself in my place; feel what I have felt, and then say, God is just; he will protect the helpless and right the wronged, and you will have some idea of my feelings and the hope that sustained me through long and weary years of servitude. My mother, my poor mother! what must she have suffered. Never will I forget her last words; never will I forget the earnest prayers of that mother begging for her child, and refusing to be comforted. She had fallen to the lot of Mrs. Anderson, and she pleaded with burning tears streaming down her cheeks, "He is my only son, my baby child, my youngest and the only son I have; please let me have him to go with me!"
Book Synopsis Exposing Slavery by : Matthew Fox-Amato
Download or read book Exposing Slavery written by Matthew Fox-Amato and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity and dignity amidst northern racism. In the first decade of the medium, enslaved people had begun entering southern daguerreotype studios of their own volition, posing for cameras, and leaving with visual treasures they could keep in their pockets. And, as the Civil War raged, Union soldiers would orchestrate pictures with fugitive slaves that envisioned racial hierarchy as slavery fell. In these ways and others, from the earliest days of the medium to the first moments of emancipation, photography powerfully influenced how bondage and freedom were documented, imagined, and contested. By 1865, it would be difficult for many Americans to look back upon slavery and its fall without thinking of a photograph. Exposing Slavery explores how photography altered and was, in turn, shaped by conflicts over human bondage. Drawing on an original source base that includes hundreds of unpublished and little-studied photographs of slaves, ex-slaves, free African Americans, and abolitionists, as well as written archival materials, it puts visual culture at the center of understanding the experience of late slavery. It assesses how photography helped southerners to defend slavery, enslaved people to shape their social ties, abolitionists to strengthen their movement, and soldiers to pictorially enact interracial society during the Civil War. With diverse goals, these peoples transformed photography from a scientific curiosity into a political tool over only a few decades. This creative first book sheds new light on conflicts over late American slavery, while also revealing a key moment in the relationship between modern visual culture and racialized forms of power and resistance.
Download or read book Slavery Is Evil written by Orville Elder and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up against the worst evil of any lifetime, Samuel shares how he withstood, and how he trusted God and eventually became a free man. He tried to escape, was nearly murdered, and most importantly for us, he observed the truth of slavery. He saw both good and bad people during a time when this evil prevailed in our land.From the deep South, in Iredell County, North Carolina to the Memphis slave markets (where he was sold twice), through the great Civil War, and finally to Washington, Iowa, a free life, and public schools for his children, Samuel Hall witnessed it all. He traces his parents from Liberia, and his brothers and sisters and children and where they were sold. Most of them he never saw again after a sale. Some were freed early, and some, like Samuel and his family, endured until the bitter end. But here, over 100 years from the telling, we get a unique view into the world, that, thank God, no longer exists in the United States. But we need to know. We need to understand WHY slavery is so evil. Read this little old book, and you will understand deeply.
Book Synopsis Thirty Years a Slave from Bondage to Freedom by : Louis Hughes
Download or read book Thirty Years a Slave from Bondage to Freedom written by Louis Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-educated and eloquent, Hughes wrote and privately published this memoir in 1897. It is a compelling account, by turns searing and compassionate about slavery, slaves, and slave owners. CHAPTER I. LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION. BIRTH - SOLD IN A RICHMOND SLAVE PEN. A SLAVE MARKET. SLAVE WHIPPING AS A BUSINESS. SOLD IN THE MARKET. ON THE AUCTION BLOCK PRICE OF SLAVES. STARTED FOR A COTTON PLANTATION. MY MISSISSIPPI HOME. PLANTATION LIFE. THE GREAT HOUSE. HOUSE SERVANT AND ERRAND BOY. CRUEL TREATMENT. INSTRUCTIONS IN MEDICINE. THE OVERSEER - WHIPPINGS AND OTHER CRUELTIES. THE SLAVE CABIN. COTTON RAISING. THE COTTON WORM. THE COTTON HARVEST. PREPARING COTTON FOR MARKET. OTHER FARM PRODUCTS. FARM IMPLEMENTS. THE CLEARING OF NEW LAND. COOKING FOR THE SLAVES. CARDING AND SPINNING. WEAVING - CLOTHES OF THE SLAVES. SLAVE MOTHERS - CARE OF THE CHILDREN. METHODS OF PUNISHMENT. FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE. ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH. RELIGIOUS MEETINGS OF THE SLAVES. A NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL. CHAPTER II. SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY. REMOVAL TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. A NEW AND SPLENDID HOUSE. A FAMILY OF FREE PERSONS SOLD INTO SLAVERY. MY MARRIAGE - BIRTH OF TWINS. MADAM'S CRUELTY TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN. EFFORTS TO LEARN TO READ AND WRITE. TOM STRIKES FOR LIBERTY AND GAINS IT. NEWS OF TOM'S REACHING CANADA. M'GEE EXPECTS TO CAPTURE TOM. MAKING CLOTHES. A SUPERSTITION. MEMPHIS AND ITS COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. CHAPTER III. SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. BEGINNING OF THE WAR. PETTY DISRESPECT TO THE EMBLEM OF THE UNION. THE BATTLE OF SHILOH, APRIL 9, 1862. MOURNING IN MASTER'S FAMILY. ALARM OF THE MEMPHIS REBELS. THE FAMILY FLEE FROM MEMPHIS. I AM TAKEN TO BOLIVAR FARM. CAPTURE OF A UNION TRADING BOAT. BOSS TAKEN PRISONER. MY THIRD EFFORT FOR FREEDOM. REBELS BURN THEIR COTTON. MY FOURTH RUNAWAY TRIP. INCIDENTS. UNION RAID AT MASTER'S FARM. UNION SOLDIERS PASS THE PANOLA HOME. HIDING VALUABLES FROM THE YANKEES. DEATH TO RUNAWAY SLAVES. SLAVES HUNG AND LEFT TO ROT AS A WARNING. RUNAWAY SLAVE CAUGHT AND WHIPPED. A HOME GUARD ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF. SUBSTITUTES FOR COFFEE. CHAPTER IV. REBELLION WEAKENING - SLAVES' HOPES STRENGTHENING. M'GEES SLAVES TAKEN TO ALABAMA. M'GEE'S GREAT SCHEME. M'GEE'S DEATH. I MAKE SOME MONEY. GOING BACK TO PANOLA. INCIDENTS. MY FIFTH STRIKE FOR FREEDOM IS A SUCCESS. GOING BACK FOR OUR WIVES. A HAZARDOUS TRIP. TWO BRAVE MEN. OUT OF BONDAGE AT LAST. A WORD FOR MY OLD MASTER. CHAPTER V. FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY. COMING NORTH. IN CANADA. A CLEW TO MY BROTHER WILLIAM. WORK IN CHICAGO. ATTENDING NIGHT SCHOOL. I SETTLE IN MILWAUKEE. BEGIN BUSINESS FOR MYSELF IN A SMALL WAY. MEETING RELATIVES OF MY OLD MASTER. FINDING MY BROTHER WILLIAM. GROWTH OF THE LAUNDRY BUSINESS. EMPLOYED AS A NURSE. A TRIP SOUTH. I MAKE NURSING MY REGULAR BUSINESS.
Download or read book Fugitivism written by S. Charles Bolton and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Booker Worthen Literary Prize During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes “laying out” nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.
