In Old Plantation Days: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
In Old Plantation Days by Paul Laurence Dunbar: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 25 original MP3 tracks, 5:46:15 running time and a link to listen.
In Old Plantation Days, credited to Paul Laurence Dunbar, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of In Old Plantation Days by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Read in English by Jim Locke. With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner. His attempt to find success was only partially realized, as his stories drew not only criticism but, in some cases, anger at their very stereotypical nature. The book itself, however, proved to be more lucrative than previous fiction works had been for the author. (Summary by Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University)
Recording facts
- Recording title: In Old Plantation Days
- Author credits: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 25
- Listed recording duration: 5:46:15
Catalogue topics
- African American Authors
- slavery
- United States
- American South
Opening tracks: first 24 of 25
- 01 - Aunt Tempe's Triumph — 12:57
- 02 - Aunt Tempe's Revenge — 14:52
- 03 - The Walls of Jericho — 14:51
- 04 - How Brother Parker Fell from Grace — 14:04
- 05 - The Trousers — 12:49
- 06 - The Last Fiddling of Mordaunt's Jim — 14:52
- 07 - A Supper by Proxy — 14:35
- 08 - The Trouble about Sophiny — 12:18
- 09 - Mr. Groby's Slippery Gift — 12:24
- 10 - Ash-Cake Hannah and Her Ben — 13:58
- 11 - Dizzy-Headed Dick — 11:57
- 12 - The Conjuring Contest — 12:43
- 13 - Dandy Jim's Conjure Scare — 11:42
- 14 - The Memory of Martha — 14:04
- 15 - Who Stands for the Gods — 10:46
- 16 - A Lady Slipper — 14:28
- 17 - A Blessed Deceit — 13:58
- 18 - The Brief Cure of Aunt Fanny — 15:09
- 19 - The Stanton Coachman — 12:10
- 20 - The Easter Wedding — 10:32
- 21 - The Finding of Martha — 25:28
- 22 - The Defection of Maria Ann Gibbs — 15:33
- 23 - The Judgment of Paris — 16:01
- 24 - Silent Sam'el — 12:27
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