The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 by Various: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 22 original MP3 tracks, 5:50:16 running time and a link to listen.

The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1, credited to Various, 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 The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 by Various. This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
- Author credits: Various
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 22
- Listed recording duration: 5:50:16
Catalogue topics
- America
- slavery
- slave
- black history
- black
- African American
Track guide
- 01 - Ex-slave James Bolton — 23:17
- 02 - Death of Charles — 14:12
- 03 - Fifty Years — 5:39
- 04 - Personal Liberty Laws — 13:11
- 05 - Reporting — 37:48
- 06 - The Ku Klux Klan — 13:20
- 07 - Your Negro Neighbor — 11:41
- 08 - The Praline Woman — 5:36
- 09 - Ex-Slave Minnie Davis — 18:43
- 10 - Where The Negro Lives — 24:21
- 11 - Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon — 1:36
- 12 - A Plea For Industrial Opportunity — 8:23
- 13 - Sketches of the Black Baptist Church — 13:25
- 14 - Lawing and Jawing — 11:36
- 15 - Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro — 20:36
- 16 - Hot Foot Hannibal — 35:55
- 17 - The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization — 18:18
- 18 - The Sunday School and Church... — 27:40
- 19 - Ex-Slave Pierce Cody — 13:01
- 20 - Here Comes A Young Man Courting — 2:43
- 21 - 'Lazy' — 1:45
- 22 - Of The Meaning of Progress — 27:30
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