Author: Louis B. HughesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411672658
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Thirty Years a Slave: from Bondage to Freedom. the Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter by Louis B. Hughes
Author: Louis B. HughesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411672658
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Thirty Years a Slave
Author: Louis HughesPublisher:
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Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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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.
Thirty Years a Slave, from Bondage to Freedom
Author: Louis HughesPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Thirty Years a Slave
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Category : Freedmen
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents the full-text of "Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter," a narrative written by American slave Louis Hughes (1832-?) that was originally published in 1897. The online text is from "First-Person Narratives of the American South," a part of the "Documenting the American South (DAS)" collection of the Academic Affairs Library.
Thirty Years a Slave
Author: Louis HughesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983678936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Thirty Years a Slave is an exemplary American slave history by Louis Hughes. The organization of human subjection, as it existed in this nation, has for some time been dead; and, cheerfully for all the hallowed interests which it pounced upon, there is for it no restoration. It might, in this manner, be asked to what design is the story which takes after, of the encounters of one individual under that dead and damned establishment?
30 YEARS A SLAVE FROM BONDAGE
Author: Louis B. 1832 HughesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781372359545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Thirty Years a Slave, from Bondage to Freedom
Author: Louis HughesPublisher: Praeger
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This chronological account details the daily lives of slaves and the hardships they suffered. At a young age, Hughes was separated from his mother and was traded among slave owners until he was purchased by Mr. McGee of Pontotoc, Mississippi, with whom he remained until McGee's death at the beginning of 1865. At first Hughes worked as an errand boy and house servant at McGee's cotton plantation in Pontotoc, and McGee began to teach him about different medicines and their properties. Hughes used this knowledge to nurse other slaves. In 1850, Hughes was sent to Memphis to help in the construction of a second house for McGee and his family. At this new house, Hughes met Matilda Morgan, whom he married in 1858. Hughes made two attempts to escape from Memphis, but he was captured both times. Late in the Civil War, Hughes and other McGee slaves were removed to Tombigbee, Alabama where they labored at a salt works. It was not until 1865 that Hughes's efforts to escape slavery were finally successful. As Union troops closed in around northern Mississippi, he turned himself in, and with some assistance, managed to rescue his wife and children as well. He and his wife settled in Milwaukee, after brief periods in Cincinnati, Chicago and Canada. Hughes worked as a professional nurse. Hughes's narrative offers a slave's observations of the Civil War from behind Confederate lines. He briefly describes his family's struggle to earn a living and establish themselves in the North after the War. In his foreword to a recent edition of Thirty Years, scholar William L. Andrews discusses the value of this slave narrative: "By paying a Milwaukee printer to publish the Autobiography of Louis Hughes, the former Alabama slave turned Wisconsin businessman was free to write about his experience in the South and the North in his own way. What he wrote identifies Hughes in several ways as more representative of the African American rank-and-file, both before and after slavery, than Douglass or most of the other celebrated fugitive slaves whose antebellum narratives have dominated our understanding of what slavery was like.
30 YEARS A SLAVE FROM BONDAGE
Author: Louis 1832 HughesPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781363910793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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Thirty Years a Slave
Author: Louis HughesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331097655
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Excerpt from Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom; The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter; Autobiography of Louis Hughes The institution of human slavery, as it existed in this country, has long been dead; and, happily for all the sacred interests which it assailed, there is for it no resurrection. It may, therefore, be asked to what purpose is the story which follows, of the experiences of one person under that dead and accursed institution? To such question, if it be asked, it may be answered that the narrator presents his story in compliance with the suggestion of friends, and in the hope that it may add something of accurate information regarding the character and influence of an institution which for two hundred years dominated the country - exercising a potent but baneful influence in the formation of its social, civil and industrial structures, and which finally plunged it into the most stupendous civil war which the world has ever known. As the enlightenment of each generation depends upon the thoughtful study of the history of those that have gone before, everything which tends to fullness and accuracy in that history is of value, even though it be not presented with the adjuncts of literary adornment, or thrilling scenic effects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Thirty Years a Slave. from Bondage to Freedom. the Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter - Primary Source Edition
Author: Louis HughesPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295845323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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