The House of Bondage Or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves
by Albert, Octavia V. Rogers; Foster, Frances SmithFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-05-09
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Setting out to correct the inaccuracies of most previously written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert presents the personal narratives of former slaves, along with her own incisive commentary. Like many antebellum slave narratives, her early interviews depictcruel punishments, divided families, and the debilitating effects of unusuallly harsh labor. But as Albert came to see herself as a public advocate for social change, her focus shifted to the condition and progress of former slaves. The later interviews reflect her insistence that every Christianpersonally take some responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons.
Table of Contents
| Publisher's Note | p. vi |
| Foreword: In Her Own Write | p. vii |
| A Note from the Schomburg Center | p. xxiii |
| Introduction | p. xxvii |
| Works Cited | p. xlii |
| Preface | p. xlvii |
| Introduction | p. liii |
| The Author | p. lvii |
| Charlotte Brooks | p. 1 |
| Charlotte's Story | p. 7 |
| Aunt Charlotte's Friends | p. 14 |
| Cruel Masters | p. 21 |
| Great Tribulations | p. 27 |
| A Kind Mistress | p. 35 |
| Broken-Down Freedmen | p. 42 |
| The Curse of Whisky | p. 49 |
| John and Lorendo | p. 57 |
| A Converted Catholic | p. 65 |
| Prison Horrors | p. 75 |
| Sallie Smith's Story | p. 86 |
| In the Woods | p. 94 |
| Uncle Stephen Jordon | p. 101 |
| Counterfeit Free Papers | p. 109 |
| Uncle Cephas's Story | p. 119 |
| A Colored Soidier | p. 129 |
| Negro Government | p. 138 |
| The Colored Delegates | p. 148 |
| A Touching Incident | p. 156 |
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