A slave narrative -Jenny Proctor link

[ebg12]

https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text1/text1read.htm
Here's a link to Jenny Proctor slave narrative....she was a slave in Alabama in 1850 to 1865. She describes the beaten she took for eating a biscuit. check it out....

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

What a valuable resource. These are always hard to read, you can only get so far without turning into a puddle. The famous narratives are tough enough- Frederick Douglas's account of having to crawl to a trough for food as a child- a child- is searing for instance. I don't know. Force myself to read them anyway. If we don't bear witness to History it's not History, it's just what we want to hear.

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Thanks for your post @ebg12 ! This was hard to read, but we owe it to folks like Jenny Proctor to bear witness to her suffering and make sure we never repeat this history.

 

[juliew]

Thanks for sharing, ebg12. Very moving narratives, and as the others stated, not easy to read.

 

[archieclement]

Here's one I posted when I reading Missouri's

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/william-black.139322/

Agree they are valuable resource, no one answered my last question, but in Missouri slave narratives the ex slaves complaining about the behavior and violence in the non slave generation was fairly common, still wonder if it was ion other states as well

 

[unionblue]

@ebg12 ,

History is history, warts and all.

Thanks for postinbg this source so that others might learn.

Sincerely,
Unionblue