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This important slave narrative deeply enriches our understanding of black culture and consciousness. It gives us a vivid sense of what it felt like to be a slave. Isaac Mason witnessed countless scenes of subjection while living in constant fear, feeling alienated from family, friends, community and self while struggling to hang onto his dream of freedom only to discover that life after slavery was very different than his dream.
Read this short narrative straight through and you will find yourself emotionally exhausted. It is that powerful. Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave is both a window into the nature of slavery itself and the foundation of an African American literary tradition.
“Although Mason mentions that he had offered lectures on ‘certain portions’ of the ‘ever memorable’ periods in his life, whether he spoke publicly of his Haitian experience cannot be documented, though he did publish explanations in Worcester papers to the effect that Haiti was a ‘graveyard’ for African Americans seeking a better life.” -“From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives” edited by B. Eugene McCarthy, Thomas L. Doughton
“Mason understood that after all, his best effort was not in political action, nor in speech-making to the multitude, but it was rather to set an example of an honest and truthful life.” -George Frisbie Hoar
“Having repeatedly been asked by my many friends to write the history of my life as a slave, especially by some who have heard me lecture on certain portions of that ever memorable period of my life, I have, after some hesitation as to its advisability, reluctantly concluded to accede to their wishes, and now present to them a truthful sketch of my eventful life in the dark days of slavery. As these checkered scenes of my early life reflectively present themselves to my mind at my advanced state of life, I wonder how I withstood all the abuse and cruelty of these early years. Our lives are largely composed of sorrow and joy, but my cup, it seems to me, has been full to overflowing with sorrow, but God has been my strength and my salvation, and has brought me thus far in the journey of life, and in him I trust, praying that, in his good time he will take me to that heavenly home where our earthly trials will cease and where there will be no more sorrow.” -Isaac Mason
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1508501556
- ISBN 13 9781508501558
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages66
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