Author: BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Slave Life in Georgia
Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownSlave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9781693703898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Editor is conscious that the following Narrative has only its truthfulness to recommend it to favourable consideration. It is nothing more than it purports to be, namely; a plain, unvarnished tale of real Slave-life, conveyed as nearly as possible in the language of the subject of it, and written under his dictation. It would have been easy to fill up the outline of the picture here and there, with dark shadows, and to impart a heightened dramatic colouring to some of the incidents; but he preferred allowing the narrator to speak for himself, and the various events recorded to tell their own tale. He believes few persons will peruse it unmoved; or arise from a perusal of it without feeling an increased abborrence of the inhuman system under which, at this hour, in the United States of America alone, three millions and a half of men, women, and children, are held as "chattels personal," by thirty-seven thousand and fifty-five individuals, many of them professing Ministers of the Gospel, and defenders of "the peculiar institution."
Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Recounts the life and later escape of John Brown (approximately 1810-1876), a Black man enslaved in Georgia from the age of ten after being torn from his mother. Brown details the physical abuse and human experimentation he endured at the hands to two plantation owners for over 15 years. After several attempts, he finally managed to escape north, taking the name John Brown in place of his slave name, "Fed." After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, Brown sailed to England and worked as a carpenter. In 1855, he dictated his memoir to Louis Chamerovzow, Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. He remained in England and later married, working as an herbalist until his death in 1876. (Adapted from Wikipedia, viewed February 21, 2023)
The Short Life of Free Georgia
Author: Noeleen McIlvennaPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469624044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia--the last British colony in what became the United States--enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia created a "Georgia experiment" of philanthropic enterprise and moral reform for poor white workers, though rebellious settlers were more interested in shaking off the British social system of deference to the upper class. Only a few elites in the colony actually desired the slave system, but those men, backed by expansionist South Carolina planters, used the laborers' demands for high wages as examples of societal unrest. Through a campaign of disinformation in London, they argued for slavery, eventually convincing the Trustees to abandon their experiment. In The Short Life of Free Georgia, Noeleen McIlvenna chronicles the years between 1732 and 1752 and challenges the conventional view that Georgia's colonial purpose was based on unworkable assumptions and utopian ideals. Rather, Georgia largely succeeded in its goals--until self-interested parties convinced England that Georgia had failed, leading to the colony's transformation into a replica of slaveholding South Carolina.
Remember Me
Author: Charles W. JoynerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownSlave Life in Georgia: a Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England
Author: John BrownJournal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Author: Fanny KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Author: John Brown