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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAVE was first published anonymously in 1857. The first publication to include the author's name was published after her death in 1906. This special annotated edition includes Art from the 1957 publication, a detailed biography and photograph of Author Martha Griffith Browne, Appendix A (an overview of the history of slavery in the United States), Appendix B (a detailed chronology of slavery in the United States and how Martha Griffith Browne helped shape that history), and for the first time ever, this book is published with a complete index and table of contents.

A quote from this fascinating piece of history...

"The first lick from Mr. Peterkin laid my back open. I writhed, I wrestled; but blow after blow descended, each harder than the preceding one. I shrieked, I screamed, I pleaded, I prayed, but here no mercy shown me. Mr. Peterkin having fully gratified and quenched his spleen, turned to Mr. Jones and said 'Now is yer turn; you can beat her as much as you please, only jist leave a bit o'life in her, is all I cares for.' "

Background on the book...

In the pages of this putative autobiography the author poses as a slave for the purpose of bringing attention to the injustice of slavery. The actual author Mattie Griffith, passing as a black, wanted her book to horrify and shame the nation.

Identifying herself as Ann, a former servant woman, she recalls her protected youth and good education as a nearly-white child. She tells that at twelve she was sold to a brutal master named Peterkin. On his Kentucky plantation she witnessed and experienced the cruelty of slave life. After his death one of his daughters took Ann to the city as her servant. Ann found new friendships there and fell in love with Henry, a slave who killed himself after being cheated out of his self-purchase. After being sold to an elderly Bostonian who emancipated her, Ann finishes her story as a schoolteacher for black children.

Pseudo-slave narratives like Griffith's appeared over the course of the abolitionist movement, and this is the only one now in print.

Born in Kentucky, Griffith was by inheritance the owner of six slaves. As a young woman she went north because she loathed the "peculiar institution." Living in poverty in Philadelphia, Griffith wrote Autobiography of a Female Slave to help finance her effort to emancipate her slaves and resettle them in free territory. She professed a keen knowledge of a slave's daily life and the brutal incidents a slave experienced. From this material she created her fictional story.

The novel failed commercially, although it was hailed within the abolitionist movement. The American Anti-Slavery Society soon afterward gave Griffith the funds to return to Kentucky in order to free and resettle her slaves.

Mattie Griffith (1826-1906) has disappeared from American literary history. She remained a lifelong activist, first for abolition, and then for women's suffrage and for temperance.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Autobiography of a Female Slave [Annotated] eBook Martha Griffith Browne

This is a piercing account of slavery in the middle of the19th century South of America. It's descriptions of shrieking agony of the human body and soul that the African slaves suffered are graphic. They cause a revolt against the masochism of the white race. The book keeps going back and forth to ideas about God in whom different races believed therein. The book brings out a critique of how that God failed His African diaspora and how that people's spirit survived the near deadly atrocities and indignities that worked as pores and soars. Reading it one is reminded of the horrors like in the Nazi labour and concentration camps or the nuclear holocaust. The author's humanism lies in the struggle to survive and fight this demented feudal-cum-modernist project. The details of the acts of terror in contrast to descriptions of nature is the usual refrain in the writing along with the nostalgic failing appeal to the ideas about God.

Product details File Size 1202 KB Print Length 535 pages Simultaneous Device Usage Unlimited Publisher Noir House (September 4, 2011) Publication Date September 4, 2011 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B005LDJXTA

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Autobiography of a Female Slave [Annotated] eBook Martha Griffith Browne Reviews

This is a piercing account of slavery in the middle of the19th century South of America. It's descriptions of shrieking agony of the human body and soul that the African slaves suffered are graphic. They cause a revolt against the masochism of the white race. The book keeps going back and forth to ideas about God in whom different races believed therein. The book brings out a critique of how that God failed His African diaspora and how that people's spirit survived the near deadly atrocities and indignities that worked as pores and soars. Reading it one is reminded of the horrors like in the Nazi labour and concentration camps or the nuclear holocaust. The author's humanism lies in the struggle to survive and fight this demented feudal-cum-modernist project. The details of the acts of terror in contrast to descriptions of nature is the usual refrain in the writing along with the nostalgic failing appeal to the ideas about God.