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"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"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. --- African American civic leaders --- African American abolitionists --- Baptists --- African American Baptists --- African American clergy --- Freedmen --- Slavery --- Plantation life --- Slaves --- Country life --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Afro-American civic leaders --- Civic leaders, African American --- Civic leaders --- Clergy --- History --- Randolph, Peter,