The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves
by Albert, Octavia V. Rogers; Foster, Frances SmithFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1988-04-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Setting out to correct the inadequacies of many written accounts of slavery, teacher and social activist Octavia Albert added her own incisive commentary to the personal narratives of former slaves. Her early interviews, like many antebellum slave narratives, depict cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labour. Seeing herself as a public advocate for social change, Albert called for every Christian's personal acceptance of responsibility for slavery's legacies and lessons. As well as its historical value, the book has many merits as a work of literature, using dialogue and experiments with dialect, and incorporating songs and poems in the text.
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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