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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: Autobiography of Louis Hughes - Softcover
Self-educated and eloquent, Hughes wrote and privately published this memoir in 1897. It is a compelling account, by turns searing and compassionate about slavery, slaves, and slave owners.
CHAPTER I.
LIFE ON A COTTON PLANTATION.
BIRTH - SOLD IN A RICHMOND SLAVE PEN. A SLAVE MARKET. SLAVE WHIPPING AS A BUSINESS. SOLD IN THE MARKET. ON THE AUCTION BLOCK PRICE OF SLAVES. STARTED FOR A COTTON PLANTATION. MY MISSISSIPPI HOME. PLANTATION LIFE. THE GREAT HOUSE. HOUSE SERVANT AND ERRAND BOY.
CRUEL TREATMENT. INSTRUCTIONS IN MEDICINE. THE OVERSEER - WHIPPINGS AND OTHER CRUELTIES. THE SLAVE CABIN. COTTON RAISING. THE COTTON WORM. THE COTTON HARVEST. PREPARING COTTON FOR MARKET. OTHER FARM PRODUCTS.
FARM IMPLEMENTS. THE CLEARING OF NEW LAND. COOKING FOR THE SLAVES. CARDING AND SPINNING. WEAVING - CLOTHES OF THE SLAVES. SLAVE MOTHERS - CARE OF THE CHILDREN. METHODS OF PUNISHMENT. FOURTH OF JULY BARBECUE.
ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH. RELIGIOUS MEETINGS OF THE SLAVES. A NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL.
CHAPTER II.
SOCIAL AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SLAVERY.
REMOVAL TO MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
A NEW AND SPLENDID HOUSE. A FAMILY OF FREE PERSONS SOLD INTO SLAVERY.
MY MARRIAGE - BIRTH OF TWINS. MADAM'S CRUELTY TO MY WIFE AND CHILDREN.
EFFORTS TO LEARN TO READ AND WRITE. TOM STRIKES FOR LIBERTY AND GAINS IT.
NEWS OF TOM'S REACHING CANADA. M'GEE EXPECTS TO CAPTURE TOM.
MAKING CLOTHES. A SUPERSTITION. MEMPHIS AND ITS COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.
CHAPTER III.
SLAVERY AND THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
BEGINNING OF THE WAR. PETTY DISRESPECT TO THE EMBLEM OF THE UNION. THE BATTLE OF SHILOH, APRIL 9, 1862.
MOURNING IN MASTER'S FAMILY. ALARM OF THE MEMPHIS REBELS. THE FAMILY FLEE FROM MEMPHIS. I AM TAKEN TO BOLIVAR FARM. CAPTURE OF A UNION TRADING BOAT. BOSS TAKEN PRISONER. MY THIRD EFFORT FOR FREEDOM. REBELS BURN THEIR COTTON. MY FOURTH RUNAWAY TRIP. INCIDENTS. UNION RAID AT MASTER'S FARM. UNION SOLDIERS PASS THE PANOLA HOME. HIDING VALUABLES FROM THE YANKEES. DEATH TO RUNAWAY SLAVES. SLAVES HUNG AND LEFT TO ROT AS A WARNING. RUNAWAY SLAVE CAUGHT AND WHIPPED. A HOME GUARD ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS HIMSELF. SUBSTITUTES FOR COFFEE.
CHAPTER IV.
REBELLION WEAKENING - SLAVES' HOPES STRENGTHENING.
M'GEES SLAVES TAKEN TO ALABAMA. M'GEE'S GREAT SCHEME. M'GEE'S DEATH.
I MAKE SOME MONEY. GOING BACK TO PANOLA. INCIDENTS. MY FIFTH STRIKE FOR FREEDOM IS A SUCCESS. GOING BACK FOR OUR WIVES. A HAZARDOUS TRIP. TWO BRAVE MEN. OUT OF BONDAGE AT LAST. A WORD FOR MY OLD MASTER.
CHAPTER V.
FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY.
COMING NORTH. IN CANADA. A CLEW TO MY BROTHER WILLIAM. WORK IN CHICAGO.
ATTENDING NIGHT SCHOOL. I SETTLE IN MILWAUKEE. BEGIN BUSINESS FOR MYSELF IN A SMALL WAY. MEETING RELATIVES OF MY OLD MASTER. FINDING MY BROTHER WILLIAM. GROWTH OF THE LAUNDRY BUSINESS. EMPLOYED AS A NURSE. A TRIP SOUTH. I MAKE NURSING MY REGULAR BUSINESS.
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About the Author:
“Originally published in Milwaukee in 1897, Hughes’s book is a rare autobiography of a black Milwaukeean. His story, however, does not begin in Wisconsin. Most of the book narrates the story of Hughes’s life as a slave. He recounts the emotional pain of being sold away from his mother at about the age of eleven, astutely observes the interactions between slaves and masters, and graphically tells of the physical brutality heaped on him and his fellow slaves. Historians have mined his memoir for what it tells about plantation life, the organization of work, and the interactions between slaves. What has been explored less often, and which appears below, is his account of his free life in Milwaukee.” -Michael Stevens, “After Slavery: The Milwaukee Years of Louis B. Hughes” Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wealthy slave owner who had a home near Memphis and plantation nearby in Mississippi. Hughes lived there as a house servant until near the end of the Civil War, when he escaped to the Union lines and then, in a daring adventure with the paid help of two Union soldiers, returned to the plantation for his wife. The couple made their way to Canada and after the war to Chicago and Detroit, eventually settling in Milwaukee. There Hughes became relatively comfortable as a hotel attendant and as an entrepreneur laundry operator.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1511487488
- ISBN 13 9781511487481
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages156
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