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<br><br><br></span>SOUTHERN SLAVERY, AS IT WAS</b><br>Douglas J. Wilson<br><br>Here are some excerpts from the booklet:<br><br><blockquote>*
"To say the least, it is strange that the thing the Bible condemns
(slave-trading) brings very little opprobrium upon the North, yet that
which the Bible allows (slave-ownership) has brought down all manner of
condemnation upon the South." (page 22)<br><br>* "As we have already
mentioned, the 'peculiar institution' of slavery was not perfect or
sinless, but the reality was a far cry from the horrific descriptions
given to us in modern histories." (page 22)<br><br>* "Slavery as it
existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive
racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it
was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." (page
24)<br><br>* "There has never been a multi-racial society which has
existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the
world." (page 24)<br><br>* "Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care." (page 25)<br><br>*
"But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long
established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over
generations with their white masters and friends." (page 27)<br><br>*
"Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living
than the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence."
(page 30)</blockquote></span><br><br><br><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reality:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History
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</span><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span>Synopsis: </b>In an unflinching oral history, former slaves
eloquently describe their experiences in captivity and portray the
harsh conditions they faced in everyday life as slaves.<br><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span><a href="http://thezeroboss.com/store/shop.php?c=3&n=15812121&i=0802138683&x=Bullwhip_Days_The_Slaves_Remember_An_Oral_History" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<span>The Bad, The Sad, And The Extremely Ugly</span> <span>June 12, 2006</span><br> <span>1 out of 1 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>This
is the real deal. Ex-slaves telling their own experiences; a few
not-so-bad, many extremely heartbreaking. This is one of the best
insights into what slavery was really like during the 19th Century.
This is the story, in there own words, of how a people were totally
dehumanized during America's most shameful period. A country claiming
"liberty and justice for all" while denying that freedom to millions of
fellow human beings. And many still ask the question, "why do
African-Americans still lag behind in so many areas, while other ethnic
groups had to struggle as immigrants also?" This book is a reminder
that blacks were forcibly brought here, and denied-for-years even the
simplest education. Maybe the reading of this book, will help some
realize the continual uphill struggle, blacks have tried to achieve in
a few short decades since the Civil Rights Movement. Trying to makeup
for Centuries of bondage, and inequality. Just as we can never forget
the evils of the Holocaust, so it should be equaly true with the era of
slavery.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>The Slaves Own Words</span> <span>January 31, 2006</span><br> <span>
1 out of 1 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span><br>I
have used this book as part of my Black history classes for 5 years
now. It would be impossible to make up the stories that actually
happened to a people held against their will and it is riveting to read
about the memories and nightmares. This book gives a name to slaves,
personalizes it and makes the suffering immortal. These recollections,
though they belonged to individuals, makes the suffering universal. The
experience of one is the experience of all. But yet, these people on
occasion find some humor in various memories and you can share there
collective joy over 150 years later. I highly recommend this book to
anyone, not just students and historians.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>"The Real Deal"</span> <span>
October 19, 2005</span><br> <span>1 out of 1 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>I
first read this book back in 1991. Even today, I will occasionally
reread it. It is very informative and very much real. I can truly say
that I love this book and this is a must have. You will truly enjoy it.
My people have come a long way.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>Powerful & Moving</span> <span>February 7, 2005
</span><br> <span>1 out of 1 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>Wow...That's
all I can say. This is a wonderful book and a must read for everyone. I
read this as part of a book club discussion for Black History Month.
What a way to open my eyes to a part of American history. Very moving.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>Telling it like it was</span>
<span>December 26, 2002</span><br> <span>3 out of 3 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>Forget
Tara, forget Falconhurst... this was the real deal. Based on the
results of a U.S. Government project in the 1930's to capture the
memories of living former slaves on tape, this awesome book is the
history of slavery in the United States by those most qualified to tell
it -- the blacks who actually lived it. And by telling their stories,
we live through it with them; we feel what it must have been like to
have your family members sold away from you, to be forced into
cohabitation with a fellow slave you despised for the sole purpose of
breeding new slaves, to be treated like a beast of burden, and the
crushing indignity of being a piece of property to be treated however
your master's whim takes him. The former slaves remembered it all, and
their reminiscences aren't pretty: "For miles around you could hear
those dreadful whuppins. They were a turrible part of livin'." We hear
their voices through the dark years of Reconstruction, which for many
former slaves was escaping out of one hell and landing into the next,
and we hear the stark statement of one old man who sums up the results
of all his labor, paid and unpaid, over the decades: "Ain't got nothin,
ain't got nothin, ain't got nothin." And finally, we can only wonder at
the strength and resilience of so many who claimed their humanity after
so many years of being treated as something less than human, and who
managed to not only survive, but to keep on keepin' on.</span><br clear="all"><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>WHAT A BOOK</span>
<span>April 26, 2002</span><br> <span>5 out of 6 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>FOR
SO LONG, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SLAVERY WAS LIKE. I'VE READ ABOUT IT IN
BOOKS BUT THERE REALLY WAS NO DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE ACTUAL
SLAVES. THIS BOOK REALLY HELPED ME TO FEEL THE DEVASTATION AND
HUMILIATION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE. IT HAS ALSO GIVEN ME A DIFFERENT
OUTLOOK ON WHO I AM AND WHERE MY PEOPLE HAVE COME FROM. LONG BEFORE
THIS BOOK I HAD DOUBTS ABOUT BEING AFRICAN. I DON'T MEAN AFRICAN
AMERICAN. AFRICAN! FROM THE TRAUMATIC STRUGGLE MY PEOPLE HAVE ENDURED
HAS MADE ME REALIZE THAT I WOULD BE SO IGNORANT TO CHANGE WHAT THEY
HAVE GIVEN ME. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK FOR NOT
CHANGING EVEN THE DIALECT OF THE EX-SLAVES. IT REMINDS ME HOW FAR WE
HAVE COME AND HOW FAR WE HAVEN'T. THERE IS SO MUCH HEALING THAT HAS TO
COME TO THE SO CALLED AFRICAN AMERICANS. READING THIS BOOK, I REALIZE
THAT I HAVE FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS WHO ARE STILL IN THE SAME STATE
OF MIND. -MENTALLY ENSLAVED-</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>A MUST READ for EVERYBODY!!!</span> <span>February 27, 2002
</span><br> <span>2 out of 2 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>This
is a fat book which you don't have to read cover to cover. You can skip
around and read what real slaves said about raising children, their
white masters, their work, what they ate, how they celebrated, how they
worshiped, etc. This really tells what life was really like on
plantations. If you like this book I recommend I WAS BORN A SLAVE which
is similar. Two novels I recommend are THE DIARY OF A SLAVE GIRL, RUBY
JO which tells about pirates and how runaways sometimes joined pirate
ships where they were treated equally. Also, THE JOURNAL OF LEROY
JONES, A FUGITIVE SLAVE.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-4-0.gif" alt="4 out of 5 stars"> <span>As a teaching aid</span> <span>May 10, 2000</span><br>
<span>4 out of 4 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>This
book would make a wonderful teaching aid. Its first hand accounts and
lessons in perspective will draw in the reader while reminding them
that these are memories that should not soon be forgotten. I have
returned to this book several times and have recommended it ( with
limited sucess ) to educators around the south and midwest. This book
should be in every high school library.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>From a White Woman's Perspective</span> <span>
April 8, 2000</span><br> <span>4 out of 6 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>As
a wife of a black man (married 14 years), I am constantly learning of
the plight of african-americans and their culture in order to better
understand and share it with our four children. This book has taught me
more and moved me more than ANY OTHER book I have ever read on the
subject. The accounts are moving, the pictures are unforgettable, and
the book flows easily from one interview to the next. Every household
in America with an interest in the "slave days" of the U.S. should read
this book and keep it to pass on to their children.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>Wonderful book</span> <span>
October 1, 1999</span><br><span>Great
book with a couple of really interesting pictures that make you do a
lot of thinking about that time in our nation's history.<br><br></span><img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>I agree with the reviews below</span> <span>
September 17, 1999</span><br> <span>6 out of 7 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>I
was astounded by this book. The interviews draw a clear, persuasive
picture that no dry history book ever could, no matter how learned the
author. I now feel as though I have an accurate view of what the lives
of slaves were like.<p>I am pleased to see that not every slave owner
was a monster and that not every slave lived a life of continuous
misery. The institution was terrible, of course, and its continued
existence so late in this country was a disgrace. Many slave owners
were brutes. However, this book illustrates the terrific capacity of
human beings to rise above their circumstances, especially of the
oppressed, but also of the oppressors.</p><p>I agree with every statement in all of the previous reviews, and I recommend the book wholeheartedly.</p></span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars">
<span>Excellent, People come alive again through their experiences</span> <span>August 12, 1999</span><br> <span>1 out of 1 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>
This
book is really superb. It puts a human face with each story on an ugly
period of American history. The good and the bad, the funny and the
quirky experiences are explained sincerely and realistically. The best
way to learn about history is through the voices of those who lived
through it so I consider this book a valuable document and a tribute to
the human spirit</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>The Most Neglected Period in U.S. History Comes Alive</span> <span>
September 21, 1998</span><br> <span>4 out of 5 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>You
wouldn't believe my excitement upon discovering this book at the local
library. These are the voices of real slaves, their histories recorded
in the 1930's through a government project to collect this data. What a
true American gem. All the voices are transcribed in the "native"
language - Black English as spoken by ex-slaves, many of them at the
time of their stories being recorded nearly a hundred years old. The
accounts are fascinating, and non-biased. Some slaves speak frankly of
wishing once again for slavery, and they recount the generosity and
attention of the "Old Marse". Others tell horrific and moving stories
of truly brutal and savage masters and wouldn't want to return to
"slave times" under any circumstance. Most of the stories include
first-hand accounts of their experiences through the Civil War and
Reconstruction, although the primary goal was to record their
experiences while slaves. Reconstruction of this country had enormous
impact, and what the slaves did to build the nation during it's early
years has been such a neglected historical topic. This is by far one of
the most important books in my collection. As a white 31-year old
middle-class woman, this is a must-read for anyone who might call
themselves an American, regardless of race.</span><br><br><br> <img src="http://thezeroboss.com/store/aom/stars-5-0.gif" alt="5 out of 5 stars"> <span>Experiences described here will stay with you a long time.
</span> <span>September 14, 1998</span><br> <span>3 out of 3 found this review helpful</span><br><br><span>This
book will expand your mind by exposing you to a set of emotions that
are (presumably) no longer experienced: how it feels to be owned. Your
own emotions will run the gamut from anger to sadness and back again,
but it is worth it to hear about slavery from people who experienced
it. You will never again think about it in abstract terms .</span><br><br><br>****************************************************************<br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unchained-Memories-Readings-Slave-Narratives/dp/0821228420" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<b>A wonderful historical collection</b>, July 1, 2003<br>
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this beautiful, historical collection of slave narratives and
photographs, we are given a look inside the lives of actual slaves
being interviewed as part of a project conducted by the Works Progress
Administration. With more than forty interviews, UNCHAINED MEMORIES is
a work of art that provides a well-rounded look at the lives of slaves.
It includes insight into their living conditions, thoughts about
slavery, their families and even the details of actual slave auctions.
It is a sometimes sad collection, but much needed to help us understand
the progress our ancestors have made in the world.<p>Through their
accounts, we are able to see the pain and suffering as well as the
spirit and pride of those born into slavery, learn from it, and pass it
along to our children. This is a wonderful resource for not only
African American families, but for anyone interested in history and the
period of slavery and its impact upon the African American race. It is
compiled with the grace and dignity deserving of a people who have been
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are stories here of families being split apart by an uncaring master
class. Children were callously sold and permanently separated from
their parents. Husbands and wives were similarly split up.</p><p>Frankly, it makes you sick.</p><p>Then there are the stories of brutality. Again it makes you sick. How could the slave owners have sunk so low?</p><p>If
you are looking for well written stories that bring the institution of
slavery to life for you, this is not the book. What you get here are
very short and very simple reports by individuals. There's nothing here
that you didn't know already. This is not a great work of literature.</p><p>This is just a punch right in the nose to make you wonder how slave owners could have been so cruel.<br><span>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/vote/ref=cm_r8n_inapp_confirm/102-9379998-3930564?ie=UTF8&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.1.type=AmazonCustomer&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.2=1&type=pipeline&uri=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0821228420&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.2.type=ProductSet&template=inappropriate&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.1=1&response=report&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.2.id=1977787&qv=1&voteValue=1&contentId=2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN&label=Inappropriate&qk=%2AVersion%2A&2115%7CR8UY9PLUR6AJN.contentAssoc.1.id=A1U6B2LDK3BUVU&context=Reviews" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</td></tr></tbody></table>"...Oh freedom, Oh freedom, Oh freedom over
me. And before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave and go home
to my Lord and be free"<br> __Old Negro Spiritual<p>The words of the
spiritual above must not have been uttered to these beautiful human
beings who have graciously allowed interviewers from the 1930's
Governments Works Progress Administration to chronicle their life
stories. For if the words above had been uttered, the slave experience,
from an intimate and painful point of view, would never have received
the credence they due. Tales of slavery are still passed down from
generation to generation, and traditions still are followed but to see
a book like Unchained Memories is special. Quite simply, this is a
beautiful book. I'm so thrilled to have been given the opportunity to
read it and experience it and learn from it. I can treat the book as a
textbook, a factual accounting of the lives of former slaves who have
wonderful stories that they don't mind sharing with the world. For that
reason alone, this book has earned a permanent place on my coffee
table, for all who enter into my house to experience. Something about
the actual words of former slaves bound in book form validates an
agonizing time in American History.</p><p>Unchained Memories is well
researched and magnificently laid out. At the beginning of every
chapter is an introductory text that accounts for the tenure of the
time, followed by a poignant quote and then brief narratives begin. My
one regret is that the narratives are so short, when biographers
obviously spent a great deal of time with these people. I am grateful
that there is an extensive bibliography at the back so that I can, at
some point, go and read the entire account by the former slave. Oh
where will I find the time? If you read this book, I would highly
suggest that you get a copy of the HBO documentary of the same name and
watch it as well. There is nothing like "hearing" the words spoken by
African American actors of today in the vernacular of the time.</p><p>I'm
glad that Unchained Memories was published, and quite fittingly made
its debut during Black History Month. These former slaves are the
reason why Black History Month is perpetuated now and a fitting tribute
for remembering from whence we as a nation have come.<br><br><span>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/vote/ref=cm_r8n_inapp_confirm/102-9379998-3930564?ie=UTF8&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.1=1&type=pipeline&uri=%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0821228420&template=inappropriate&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.1.id=AF6EOCHEKMZZC&response=report&qv=1&voteValue=1&contentId=2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW&label=Inappropriate&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.2.id=1977787&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.2.type=ProductSet&qk=%2AVersion%2A&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.1.type=AmazonCustomer&2115%7CR1C3VC399635XW.contentAssoc.2=1&context=Reviews" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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exquisite pictorial and narrative exploration of the institution of
American slavery, this book provides readers with the opportunity to
experience from personal recollections what it was like to live under
conditions of slavery. The text format, an artistic balance of
photographs and primary sources, is composed of interviews with former
slaves conducted in the 1930s by the Federal Writers' Project. Each
chapter focuses on a particular aspect of slave life - auctions, work,
family, special occasions, providing a deeply etched portrait of
hardships and abuses as well as examples of strength of character and
quiet dignity. A worthy addition to one's library!<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><span><br></span>by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-9379998-3930564?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Spencer%20Crew" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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"Nothing symbolizes the fragility and inequities of slave life better than the slave auction..."</span><br>-- <br><br><br>Juanita Flores<br>Advocate for the Truth from Jesus