The Homesteader: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Homesteader, credited to Oscar Micheaux, 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 Homesteader by Oscar Micheaux. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he falls in love with, however as Agnes is presumed to be white, he is not allowed to marry her, so instead he marries the daughter of a black preacher, Orlean, which eventually, due to family issues, ends in a tragedy. Returning to his homestead, he finds Agnes again and discovers her upbringing and past, which brings the book to its conclusion. (Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson) Note: Two readers provided recordings for the Third Epoch, Chapter 14 (Section 48). Both readings are included here.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Homesteader
• Author credits: Oscar Micheaux
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 71
• Listed recording duration: 17:12:34

Catalogue topics

• farming
• settlement
• homestead
• settler
• race

Opening tracks: first 24 of 71

1. 01 - Chapter I - Epoch the First - Agnes — 15:06
2. 02 - Chapter II - Epoch the First - The Homesteader — 13:54
3. 03 - Chapter III - Epoch the First - At the Sod House — 19:06
4. 04 - Chapter IV - Epoch the First - She Could Never Be Anything to Him — 13:52
5. 05 - Chapter V - Epoch the First - When the Indians Shot the Town Up — 12:10
6. 06 - Chapter VI - Epoch the First - The Infidel, A Jew and A German — 12:12
7. 07 - Chapter VII - Epoch the First - The Day Before — 10:04
8. 08 - Chapter VIII - Epoch the First - An Enterprising Young Man — 30:23
9. 09 - Chapter IX - Epoch the First - "Christine! Christine!" — 11:43
10. 10 - Chapter X - Epoch the First - "You Have Never Been This Way Before" — 9:30
11. 11 - Chapter XI - Epoch the First - What Jean Baptiste Found in the Well — 9:04
12. 12 - Chapter XII - Epoch the First - Miss Stewart Receives a Caller — 13:25
13. 13 - Chapter XIII - Epoch the First - The Coming of the Railroad — 21:20
14. 14 - Chapter XIV - Epoch the First - The Administrating Angel — 16:13
15. 15 - Chapter XV - Epoch the First - Oh, My Jean — 14:23
16. 16 - Chapter XVI - Epoch the First - "Bill" Prescott Proposes — 15:12
17. 17 - Chapter XVII - Epoch the First - Harvest Time and What Came with It — 21:22
18. 18 - Chapter I - Epoch the Second - Regarding the Intermarriage of Races — 20:42
19. 19 - Chapter II - Epoch the Second - Which? — 12:51
20. 20 - Chapter III - Epoch the Second - Memories—N. Justine McCarthy — 29:17
21. 21 - Chapter IV - Epoch the Second - Orlean — 23:26
22. 22 - Chapter V - Epoch the Second - A Proposal: A Proposition; A Certain Mrs. Pruitt—And a Letter — 9:29
23. 23 - Chapter VI - Epoch the Second - The Prairie Fire — 11:01
24. 24 - Chapter VII - Epoch the Second - Vanity — 20:10

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