The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina (Docsouth Books)
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He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful God on Sundays and holding slaves under inhumane conditions. Jackson details his escape from slavery into Massachusetts as a ship stowaway after he is separated by sale from his first wife and child.
The Clearing House, 72 6 , Gratis verzending 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren Ophalen bij een bol. The experience of Rev. Technology was present but was not in the hands of the students. In the end, she felt it was a very valuable lesson for her students:. The transcriptions are preceded by an introduction written by William Francis Allen, the chief editor of the collection, who provides his own explanation of the origin of the songs and the circumstances under which they were sung.
He also describes his interactions with Harriet Beecher Stowe; his failed attempts to purchase the freedom of his family members; and his eventual escape into Canada following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. His work also includes a variety of carefully recorded hymns and antislavery songs.
Jackson would eventually flee to England with his second wife before returning to South Carolina after the War. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications.
In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no. Editorial Reviews. About the Author. John Andrew Jackson was born a slave on a plantation in Sumter County, South Carolina, and escaped slavery in ;.
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Samenvatting First published in , Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other parts of the country. The transcriptions are preceded by an introduction written by William Francis Allen, the chief editor of the collection, who provides his own explanation of the origin of the songs and the circumstances under which they were sung.
One critic has noted that, like the editors' introductions to slave narratives, Allen's introduction seeks to lend to slave expressions the honor of white authority and approval. Gathered during and after the Civil War, the songs, most of which are religious, reflect the time of slavery, and their collectors worried that they were beginning to disappear. Allen declares the editors' purpose to be to preserve, while it is still possible DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications.