The American slave : a composite autobiography

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  • [edited by] George P. Rawick.
  • Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Pub. Co., [1972-1976]
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    • Introduction p. i
    • Status, Phantasy, and the Christian Dogma (a Note About the Conversion Experiences of Negro Ex-Slaves) p. iv
    • Prologue: a Man in a Man p. 1
    • I Am Blessed but You Are Damned p. 3
    • Hooked in the Heart p. 7
    • My Jaws Became Unlocked p. 11
    • God Struck Me Dead p. 19
    • I Came from Heaven and Now Return p. 23
    • Split Open from Head to Foot p. 26
    • You Must Die This Day p. 28
    • I Came to Myself Shouting p. 30
    • Fly Open for My Bride p. 32
    • The Gospel Train p. 36
    • I Am as Old as God p. 37
    • I Want You to Jump p. 39
    • To Hell with a Prayer in My Mouth p. 41
    • Souls Piled Up like Timber p. 44
    • The Inside Voice Never Leaves Me Lonely p. 47
    • Behold the Travail of Your Soul p. 49
    • Your Sins All Washed Away p. 53
    • I Ain't Got to Die No More p. 55
    • Before the Wind Ever Blew p. 57
    • Golden Slippers on My Feet p. 58
    • Everything Just Fits p. 60
    • The Golden Wedge p. 62
    • A Voice Rang in My Soul p. 64
    • Waiting for to Carry Me Home p. 67
    • Angels Warm Me in My Dreams p. 69
    • I'Ll Do the Separation at the Last Day p. 71
    • The Sun in a Cloudy Sky p. 72
    • Pray a Little Harder p. 73
    • There Ain't No Conjurers p. 75
    • A Burning Over My Soul p. 76
    • Felt the Darkness with My Hands p. 77
    • Jesus Handed Me a Ticket p. 80
    • I Died to Live Again p. 83
    • Little Me Looks at Old Dead Me p. 84
    • The Road So Narrow and My Feet So Big p. 85
    • Barked at by the Hell-Hounds p. 86
    • I Looked at My Hands and They Were New p. 87
    • Behold, I Am a Doctor p. 89
    • Hinder Me Not Ye Much-Loved Sins p. 92
    • Waist-Deep in Death p. 93
    • Baptized in the Spirit p. 94
    • Sitting on Cattle with a Thousand Hoofs p. 95
    • The Lord Spoke Peace to My Soul p. 97
    • More Than Conqueror p. 98
    • Hewn from the Mountains of Eternity p. 101
    • Time Brought You to This World p. 102
    • Epilogue: I Have Seen Nothing and Heard Nothing p. 103
    • Part II Autobiographies p. 102
    • Slave Who Joined the Yanks p. 104
    • Preacher from a ""God-Fearing"" Plantation p. 146
    • ""Times Got Worse After the War"" p. 175
    • Sixty-Five Years a ""Washer and Ironer"" p. 184
    • Stayed with ""Her People"" After Freedom p. 190
    • Slavery Was ""Hell Without Fires"" p. 204
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    Description:
    19 volumes ; 24 cm.
    Series:
    Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 11
    Published:
    Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Pub. Co., [1972-1976]
    Language:
    English
    Notes:
    Vol. 2-17 consist of transcriptions of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38, and deposited in the Library of Congress, where they were assembled under title: Slave narratives, a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves.
    Includes bibliographical references (volumes 1, pages 179-200).
    Genre or Form:
    Personal narratives
    ISBN:
    0837133149
    OCLC Number:
    210805
    Other Identifiers:
    LCCN: 71038591 //r73

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