American Slaves Tell Their Stories Six

Vivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious beliefs and practices, as well as the condition and progress of former slaves. Essential reading for students of African-American studies.

Charlotte Brooks

1

(3)

Causes of immorality among colored people

Charlotte Brooks

She is sold South

Sunday work

Charlotte's Story

4

(4)

Meeting Jane Lee from Virginia

Conversion of Charlotte Brooks

Aunt Charlotte's Friends

8

(4)

Death of Aunt Charlotte's children

Jane Lee's master leaves the neighborhood

Nellie Johnson tries to escape to her old Virginia home

Cruel Masters

12

(4)

Nellie Johnson is barbarously treated

Sam Wilson living in the swamps of Louisiana

Richard's wife living on another plantation

His master refuses to allow him to visit her

Caught by patrollers and beaten almost to death

Great Tribulations

16

(5)

The death of Lena

Her dying testimony

Aunt Charlotte's mistress ties a servant by the thumbs

She returns and finds her dead

A Kind Mistress

21

(4)

Death of Aunt Charlotte's mistress

Second marriage of her master

George beaten nearly to death and one of his eyes put out for being overheard talking about freedom

Broken-Down Freedmen

25

(4)

Aunt Charlotte splitting rails

In Sunday-school

Joe Sims, a runaway, sleeping in the woods with rattlesnakes

Eating out of trash-boxes

The Curse of Whisky

29

(4)

The Methodist Episcopal Church

The colored people and whisky-drinking

When the Yankees came to Louisiana

The end of Aunt Charlotte's story

John and Lorendo

33

(4)

Work to be done

John Goodwin and Lorendo, his wife

Uncle John's little brother washed away by the rain

A Converted Catholic

37

(5)

Going to church on Sunday in Georgia

Ill-treatment of Uncle John's daughter

Aunt Lorendo's second visit

Her conversion from Romanism

Her Cousin Albert to be hung

Hattie runs away and gives birth to a child in the woods

Prison Horrors

42

(6)

Uncle John taking lessons

Andersonville horrors

Bloodhounds

Silas bitten by blood-hounds and eaten by buzzards

Sallie Smith's Story

48

(4)

Sallie Smith living in the woods

Death of her mother

The ill-treatment she suffered

In the Woods

52

(4)

Aunt Sallie's cruel treatment, continued

Her brother Warren runs away and joins her in the woods

Uncle Stephen Jordon

56

(4)

Uncle Stephen sold with a calf

A sheriff's sale in slave-days

He is made to leave his wife, and children, and his master gives him another wife

He does not want the new wife

Counterfeit Free Papers

60

(5)

Uncle Stephen's cabin searched and his counterfeit free papers found by the overseer

His master, about to kill him, determines to sell him

Uncle Stephen's new master

His break for freedom and capture

Sentenced to be hanged

He finally gets free

Uncle Cephas's Story

65

(5)

Lizzie Beaufort determines to die rather than lead a wicked life

Cato runs away, and finally makes his way to freedom by the aid of the Underground Railroad

Cato becomes a soldier, a senator, a congressman

How Uncle Cephas learned to read, bought himself, and became a rich and honored citizen

A Colored Soldier

70

(5)

Colonel Douglass Wilson on the war

Color-bearer Planchiancio and Captain Caillioux

Joel Brinkley, a Yankee school-teacher, caned nearly to death

Negro Government

75

(5)

Kuklux

Reign of terror

Black laws

Reconstruction

Colored men in constitutional conventions and State legislatures

Lieutenant-Governor Dunn

Honest Antoine Dubuclet

Negro problem

What the race has accomplished since the war

Emigration and colonization

The Colored Delegates

80

(4)

The Methodist General Conference of 1888

Negro delegates

Reception tendered them by Mrs. General Grant

Presentation of a Bible to Mrs. Grant

Dr. Minor's great presentation address

A Touching Incident

84

(1)

Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884

Dr. Lee's great speech

Aunt Jane Lee finds her long-lost son

The reunion

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