Louisa Adams - Slave Narratives

Publicado 2021-02-28
Hear a first-person account from Louisa Adams, a former enslaved woman in North Carolina. Recorded July 7, 1937

Book: Slave Narratives

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  • @mett978
    A hauntingly beautiful telling of a brutal life. Thank you for sharing
  • @naasofficial
    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.
  • @mymothersdiva
    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.
  • @Djt4848
    My great grandmother, who is still alive, was born before this narrative.
  • @msjunpyo8
    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