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Thirty Years a Slave
By Louis Hughes

Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father anda
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 plus 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. (Introduction by James K. White)

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Read by James K. White. Total running time: 04:54:22

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