30 Years A Slave...

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Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation and empire.

In Thirty Years A Slave Hughes provides vivid descriptions and explicit accounts of how the McGee plantation in Mississippi, and the McGee mansion in Tennessee functioned--accounts of the lives of the many slaves that lived, suffered and sometimes died under the cruel and unusual punishments meted out by Boss and his monstrously unstable and vindictive wife. He described the profane manner in which this peculiar institution dehumanized, on a daily basis, not only the black man but even more so the white man.

Ultimately, Thirty Years A Slave is an expression of Hughes’s desire to accurately describe the nature of the influence that the institution of slavery had on this country during the two hundred plus years in which it existed here, and the influence it continues to have on the heart and soul of a post-Civil War, post-14th Amendment United States. (Introduction by James K. White)
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This is a free audio book about slavery and how it was practiced over a period of 200 years in America.

http://www.loyalbooks.com/book/Thirty-Years-a-Slave

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Is there something wrong with this or do people just not like audio books? Just wondering.

If it's something else please let me know what it is?

Thanks.

I found it interesting because it gives personal insight into slavery and history of how things were done back then. Like how to grow cotton, how the slaves were skilled and made most of the implements. How they made harness for the mules out of bark etc.

I also cringe at the off handed way humans were treated and the cruelty. The entire thing is humiliating both to slaves and slave holders.

I can remember how in the sixties I got into a very heated argument with some people from Mississippi about people of color. They were racist pigs who actually denied Blacks humanity. This was around 1968. I was shocked, but then I grew up on the west coast in a white community so my experience was limited.

Anyway...if this kind of thing isn't of interest to anyone I won't post it anymore....or I may continue anyway, just because. There are several books on this subject and the Black experience that I may include.