Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery

Book Overview

De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks 'bout Massa buyin' me off de block and savin' me from bein' separated from my folks, and 'bout bein' whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?

So asks Rose Williams of Bell County, Texas,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895873230
• ISBN13: 9780895873231
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Blair
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Far More Terrible For Women is an appropriate Title

Unfortunately, the title describes a terrible and shameful time in America's history that needed to be uncovered. Whatever your idea of slavery was before will be challenged by these first-hand accounts of brutality; mentally, physically, and emotionally. The reading of this book has changed me for life.