Iola Leroy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Iola Leroy, credited to Frances E. W. Harper, 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 Iola Leroy by Frances E. W. Harper. Read in English by James K. White This is the story of Iola Leroy, a free-born, mixed-race woman who passed as white. Her true racial identity eventually discovered, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Later freed by the Union Army, she journeyed to find others of her family who had been disunited from each other and strewn across the south by the forces of slavery. In the process she also struggled to improve the economic and social station of African Americans. Iola Leroy is a story about race and gender roles during the antebellum and post-Civil War eras, "passing" and the associated socio-political consequences. (Summary by James K. White)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Iola Leroy
• Author credits: Frances E. W. Harper
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 8:16:05

Catalogue topics

• politics
• fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 00 - Introduction — 6:05
2. 01 - Chapter I — 14:14
3. 02 - Chapter II — 16:30
4. 03 - Chapter III — 16:17
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 8:26
6. 05 - Chapter V — 10:22
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 13:15
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 11:31
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 10:03
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 22:38
11. 10 - Chapter X — 24:27
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 20:28
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 22:15
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 20:42
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 15:46
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 16:41
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 7:48
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 7:30
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 29:17
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 19:06
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 23:06
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 4:40
23. 22 - Chapater XXII — 12:48
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 11:17

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