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From Bondage to Belonging - The Worcester Slave Narratives (Paperback)
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From Bondage to Belonging - The Worcester Slave Narratives (Paperback)
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This is a rare set of personal accounts by eight ex-slaves who
settled in the same northern community. First published between
1842 and 1895, the autobiographical narratives gathered in this
volume document the experiences of eight former slaves who
eventually took up residence in Worcester, Massachusetts. Each
narrative tells a gripping individual story, its author clearly
visible in the dress of his or her own words. Together they
illuminate not only the inhumanity of slavery but also the dreams
and dilemmas of emancipation, tracing the personal journeys of
seven men and one woman from bondage to freedom. In their
well-researched introduction, B. Eugene McCarthy and Thomas L.
Doughton situate the Worcester slave narratives within a broader
historical framework and analyze their meaning and significance.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, they reconstruct the black
community of Worcester and compare it with other New England black
communities of the time, describing how the town evolved from a
society with slaves in the colonial era to a hub for free blacks by
the eve of the Civil War. They explain why these writings must be
understood as part of a long-established tradition of African
American self-representation, and show how the four narratives
published before 1865 focus on the experience of slavery, while the
four written after the war offer the fresh perspective of living in
freedom. Headnotes describe the distinctive literary features of
each narrative and provide additional information about the lives
of the authors. The editors discuss why these ex-slaves came to
Worcester, the circumstances in which each wrote his or her
narrative, and the audiences they had in mind. No other collection
of slave narratives offers such a diverse range of testimony within
a specific historical and literary context, or a more compelling
account of the transition from bondage to belonging.
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