The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States, credited to Robert Dale Owen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States by Robert Dale Owen. Read in English by KevinS; fried1259; PlantDoc; laurencetrask; progressingamerica; mleigh; Michele Eaton; Ruthema; Grace Buchanan; Richard Reiman; Larry Wilson; Wayne Cooke; Bhavesh Aggarwal "The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission where he served. It traces the early beginnings of the slave trade from its English beginning to the United States Civil War. It puts a focus on the barbarism of the slave trade from capture and transportation to the arrival in the Americas, the extreme cruelties that took place in the West Indies and South America, facts about slavery in the United States, and the advantages of a freed black population to the South. (Summary by mleigh)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States
• Author credits: Robert Dale Owen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 7:26:42

Catalogue topics

• abolitionism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 00 - Preface — 9:53
2. 01 - Introduction — 1:37
3. 02 - Part 1, chapter 1: As A Labor System — 3:52
4. 03 - Part 1, chapter 2: Enslavement of Indians — 10:49
5. 04 - Part 1, chapter 3: Substitution of the African for the Indian — 5:23
6. 05 - Part 1, chapter 4: Number of Slaves shipped from Africa — 18:26
7. 06 - Part 1, chapter 5: How Slaves were obtained in Africa — 12:44
8. 07 - Part 1, chapter 6: How Slaves were transported from Africa — 25:38
9. 08 - Part 1, chapter 7: What became of the Imported Slaves — 29:28
10. 09 - Part 1, chapter 8: Strangely contrasting Fate of the Two diverging Streams — 25:53
11. 10 - Part 1, chapter 9: Touching the Causes of certain Marvellous Results — 11:18
12. 11 - Part 1, chapter 10: Was there a Failure and a Success? — 48:17
13. 12 - Part 1, chapter 11: The Great Lesson — 7:32
14. 13 - Part 2, chapter 1: A Mixed Question of Constitutional and International Law — 6:25
15. 14 - Part 2, chapter 2: Constitutional Aspect of what is called Slave-Property — 22:01
16. 15 - Part 2, chapter 3, section 1: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Insurrectionary States — 1:01:44
17. 16 - Part 2, chapter 3, section 2: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Insurrectionary States — 39:12
18. 17 - Part 2, chapter 4: The Constitutionality of Emancipation in the Loyal Slave States — 17:47
19. 18 - Part 3, chapter 1: Forebodings Regarding the Fate of the Negro — 5:46
20. 19 - Part 3, chapter 2: Do we need the Aid of the Negro as a Loyal Citizen? — 10:12
21. 20 - Part 3, chapter 3: Can the Negro, as Freedman, maintain himself? — 10:12
22. 21 - Part 3, chapter 4: The Emancipated Negro will make the South his Home — 8:08
23. 22 - Part 3, chapter 5: Amalgamation — 18:58
24. 23 - Part 3, chapter 6: Reciprocal Social Influence of the Races on each other — 6:18

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