TY - BOOK ID - 80837398 TI - Sketches of slave life AU - Randolph, Peter AU - Bassard, Katherine Clay PY - 2016 SN - 9781943665068 1943665060 1943665060 9781943665044 9781943665051 1943665044 1943665052 9781943665075 1943665079 PB - Morgantown West Virginia University Press DB - UniCat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. KW - African American civic leaders KW - African American abolitionists KW - Baptists KW - African American Baptists KW - African American clergy KW - Freedmen KW - Slavery KW - Plantation life KW - Slaves KW - Country life KW - Enslaved persons KW - Persons KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Ex-slaves KW - Freed slaves KW - Afro-American civic leaders KW - Civic leaders, African American KW - Civic leaders KW - Clergy KW - History KW - Randolph, Peter, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80837398 AB - "This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader. Randolph's story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with his entire plantation cohort. A lawsuit launched by Randolph against his former master's estate left legal documents that corroborate his autobiographies. Randolph's writings give us a window into a different experience of slavery and freedom than other narratives currently available and will be of interest to students and scholars of African American literature, history, and religious studies, as well as those with an interest in Virginia history and mid-Atlantic slavery"-- ER -