A Slave Girl's Story

By Kate Drumgoold

Book Overview

A Slave Girl's Story is a slave biography by Kate Drumgoold that is written for the good of those that have written and prayed that the slaves might be a freed people, and have schools and books and learn to read and write for themselves; and the Lord, in His love for us and to us as a race, has ever found favor in His sight, for when we were in the land of bondage He heard the prayers of the faithful ones, and came to deliver them out of the Land of Egypt. Kate Drumgoold (born c. 1858 or 1859 - ?) 1] was an American woman born into slavery around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her autobiography, A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. 2] "It is a rare portrait of a former slave who moved between the highly urbanized environment of New York City and the rural South.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530198771
• ISBN13: 9781530198771
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"