Till Freedom Cried Out
Memories of Texas Slave Life (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No 6)
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Author
Contributions
- T. Lindsay Baker (Editor) - Contributor
- Julie P. Baker (Editor) - Contributor
- Kermit Oliver (Illustrator) - Contributor
Publication
1997-02-01 - Texas A&M University Press
Language
English
Word Count
40,500 words, Guess
Page Count
162 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8218197M
- ISBN-139780890967362
- ISBN-100890967369
- OCLC Control Number35331308
- OCLC Control Numbertillfreedomcried0000unse
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96038575
- Goodreads2163266
- LibraryThing8843606
Classifications
- LCCE444 .T55 1997
Description
The 32 reminiscences presented here provide insight into the lives of the enslaved, including recollections of being sold away from parents, suffering harsh punishment by overseers, and living in misery.
Description
This account, recorded as part of the Federal Writers' Project, describes life as a Texas slave - the family relations, entertainment, religion, work on the plantations, food-ways, and punishment. For decades the bondage of black slaves to white masters was part of everyday life in Texas, and by the eve of the Civil War almost one-third of the total population consisted of slaves. Most works about slavery have been written from the white viewpoint, since most slaves were kept illiterate. This collection offers a clear-eyed perspective on this institution from the slaves themselves - their recollections from being sold away from their parents, suffering the pain of the overseers' lash, and being chosen to gratify masters' desires, to finding emotional release in religious services, appreciating music and dancing, and enjoying a brief escape to the woods. Vignettes of daily life are sensitively brought to life in the skilled drawings of artist Kermit Oliver. Enriched by these illustrations and by an introduction and postscript commentary by editors T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, Till Freedom Cried Out presents vivid memories of lives and times inside the bonds of an institution that tried to break the tellers' bodies and souls.
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Other Editions
- Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series, No 6)
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