Sketches of Slave Life and From and From Slave Cabin to the by Peter Randolph,Katherine Clay Bassard

By Peter Randolph,Katherine Clay Bassard

This booklet is the 1st anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a favorite nineteenth-century former slave who turned a black abolitionist, pastor, and neighborhood leader.

Randolph’s tale is exclusive simply because he used to be freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, together with his complete plantation cohort. A lawsuit introduced by means of Randolph opposed to his former master’s property left criminal records that corroborate his autobiographies.

Randolph's writings provide us a window right into a diverse adventure of slavery and freedom than different narratives presently on hand and should be of curiosity to scholars and students of African American literature, historical past, and non secular experiences, in addition to people with an curiosity in Virginia heritage and mid-Atlantic slavery. 

 

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