Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life Hardcover - 1997
by T. Lindsay Baker (Editor); Julie P. Baker; Kermit Oliver (Illustrator)
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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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- Title Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life
- Author T. Lindsay Baker (Editor); Julie P. Baker; Kermit Oliver (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition first printing
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station
- Date February 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780890967362 / 0890967369
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 10.32 x 7.27 x 0.81 in (26.21 x 18.47 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Oral history, Slavery - Texas - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-38575
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.400
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Citations
- School Library Journal, 12/01/1997, Page 154
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