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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 50 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Carlos Marcel. |
| Summary |
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 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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Plantation life -- Alabama.
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Slavery -- Mississippi.
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Slaves -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Bolivar County (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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Pontotoc County (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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| Added Author |
Marcel, Carlos.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781669303817 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1669303810 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14470134 |
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