The Freedmen's Book: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Freedmen's Book, credited to Lydia Maria Child, 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 Freedmen's Book, by Lydia Maria Child. Read by Rhonda Federman. Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an inspiration to freed slaves. In her dedication to the freedmen, she urges those who can read to read these stories aloud to others to share the strength, courage and accomplishments of colored men and women. In that spirit, this recording aims to gives that voice a permanent record. As in the original text, the names of the colored authors are marked with an "x". (Summary by Rhonda Federman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Freedmen's Book
• Author credits: Lydia Maria Child
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 9:26:11

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 00 - TO THE FREEDMEN — 1:38
2. 01 - Ignatius Sancho by L. Maria Child — 23:53
3. 02 - Extract from the Tenth Psalm — 1:07
4. 03 - Prejudice Reproved by Lydia H. Sigourney — 1:17
5. 04 - Benjamin Banneker by L. Maria Child — 20:08
6. 05 - Ethiopia by Frances E. W. Harper - x — 1:56
7. 06 - The Hour of Freedom by William Lloyd Garrison — 0:51
8. 07 - William Boen by L. Maria Child — 10:53
9. 08 - Anecdote of General Washington — 2:16
10. 09 - Prayer of the Slave by Bernard Barton — 2:00
11. 10 - Toussaint l'Ouverture, Part 1 by L. Maria Child — 29:31
12. 11 - Toussaint l'Ouverture, Part 2 by L. Maria Child — 35:15
13. 12 - Toussaint l'Ouverture, Part 3 by L. Maria Child — 41:44
14. 13 - The Aspirations of Mingo by Mingo, a Slave - x — 3:03
15. 14 - Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances E. W. Harper - x — 0:56
16. 15 - Phillis Wheatley by L. Maria Child — 15:26
17. 16 - A Pertinent Question by Frederick Douglass - x — 1:40
18. 17 - The Works of Providence by Phillis Wheatley - x — 5:00
19. 18 - The Dying Christian by Frances E. W. Harper - x — 0:57
20. 19 - Kindness to Animals by L. Maria Child — 7:57
21. 20 - James Forten by L. Maria Child — 6:15
22. 21 - The Meeting in the Swamp by L. Maria Child — 14:37
23. 22 - A Reasonable Request by Peter Williams - x — 1:03
24. 23 - The Slave Poet by George Horton, a Slave - x — 5:57

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