Louisa Adams - Slave Narratives

A hauntingly beautiful telling of a brutal life. Thank you for sharing

Thank you for sharing this, it'll help with a project I'm influxed over

if you ever want to hear some stories like this see the book "The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada." these are personal accounts/interviews of many brothers and sisters in Canada who just escaped into ontario. they also interviewed my ggg in this book as well. you will even find a never heard before interview done of Harriet Tubman when she was in ontario. a interview out her mouth her self by Harriet Tubman: I grew up like a neglected weed,--ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away. I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang,--one of them left two children. We were always uneasy. Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave. I have no opportunity to see my friends in my native land. We would rather stay in our native land, if we could be as free there as we are here. I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell, if he could.

It's hard for me to hear this. It reminds me of my grandparents. My grandmother was a maid, and my grandfather was a gardener. The people they work for we're very nice as much as I remember of them. They didn't come to either of their homegoing services though. There were no white people there.

Wow I’m from this county in NC!!!

My great grandmother, who is still alive, was born before this narrative.

I don't understand but my love for the people Regardless of race

I'm in Fayetteville and they have the slave market downtown...😢 They keep it up too all painted and nice...Lord smh thanks for posting

Is that woman in the thumbnail missing her nose ? It sure looks like it

Can't hear it. Volume to low.

How do you work all day and hunt at night?

Black Americans whose ancestors arrived by slave ships are from the Tribe of Judah. Look at a map of Africa, it was called Negroland, at the bottom it shows the slave coast, the Tribe of Judah (Whiddah) camped there. They were the people who were stolen/kidnapped/sold into slavery and brought to America on slave ships in chains, Deuteronomy 28,29. All of Africa was NOT enslaved and there were Black skinned people already here when they arrived. Also in the Zondervan Bible Dictionary it states that the Negroes/Black Americans are NOT from the same family lineage as the other darker races including the Egyptian, Ethiopians, Libyan and 99% of Africans !!! Our American government knew exactly who they were enslaving, they called us Negroes.