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Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and copyrighted. During the 1840s he lived in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Aaron and Mary Safford, where he encountered Mary's stepsister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, along with Frederick Douglass, Lewis Tappan, Gerrit Smith, Josiah Henson, John Brown, Lydia Child, and Martin Delaney. His experiences are evident in Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, and Stowe identified him as the prototype for the book's rebellious character George Harris. This facsimile edition of Clarke's book is introduced by his great grandson, Carver Clark Gayton, who has served as director of Affirmative Action Programs at the University of Washington; corporate director of educational relations and training for the Boeing Company; lecturer at the Evans School of Public Administration, University of Washington; and executive director of the Northwest African American Museum. He lives in Seattle. A V Ethel Willis White Book
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More Than Twenty-five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America
Cover -- Contents -- A Re-Introduction to Lewis Clarke, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Forgotten Hero -- FACSIMILE OF THE NARRATIVE BY LEWIS CLARKE -- PREFACE. -- NARRATIVE OF LEWIS CLARKE. -- PROGRESS OF FREEDOM. -- APPENDIX . -- A SKETCH OF THE CLARKE FAMILY. -- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. -- WHAT IS SLAVERY? -- SLAVERY AND CHRISTIANITY. -- SLAVEHOLDER'S PARODY. -- I AM MONARCH OF NOUGHT I SURVEY. -- OUR COUNTRYMEN IN CHAINS. -- EXTRACT FROM CAMPBELL'S ""PLEASURES OF HOPE.""--THE SOUTH-READ! READ! -- NOTE . -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Growing Up in Slavery
Ten slaves—all under the age of 19—tell stories of enslavement, brutality, and dreams of freedom in this collection culled from full-length autobiographies. These accounts, selected to help teenagers relate to the horrific experiences of slaves their own age living in the not-so-distant past, include stories of young slaves torn from their mothers and families, suffering from starvation, and being whipped and tortured. But these are not all tales of deprivation and violence; teenagers will relate to accounts of slaves challenging authority, playing games, telling jokes, and falling in love. These stories cover the range of the slave experience, from the passage in slave ships across the Atlantic—and daily life as a slave both on large plantations and in small-city dwellings—to escaping slavery and fighting in the Civil War. The writings of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, and other lesser-known slaves are included.
American Lives
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When Owing a Shilling Costs a Dollar
Lewis G. Clarke, born into slavery, was separated from his Scottish father and quadroon mother at the age of six in Madison County, Kentucky. the atrocities he suffered and witnessed under his new masters were abominable and way beyond what most slaves endured during slavery. After escaping from bondage, Clarke then traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and became a primary spokesman for the abolitionist movement throughout the Northeast and Canada during the 1840s and 1850s. While in Cambridge, he lived in the home of Aaron and Mary Safford where he met many times with Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary's stepsister, as well as many other luminaries of the abolitionist movement. the rebellious qua...
