Why is the Negro Lynched?: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Why is the Negro Lynched?, credited to Frederick Douglass, 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 Why is the Negro Lynched? by Frederick Douglass. Read in English by Josh Kibbey; Ciufi Galeazzi; Gene Pease; Wayne Cooke We have felt that the most fitting tribute that we, of the Anti-Caste movement, can pay to the memory of this noble and faithful life is to issue broadcast—as far as the means entrusted to us will allow—his last great appeal for justice (uttered through the pages of “The A.M.E. Church Review” only a few months before his death). A slanderous charge against Negro morality has gone forth throughout the world and has been widely credited. The white American has had his say both North and South. On behalf of the accused, Frederick Douglass claims, in the name of justice, to be heard. (From the introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Why is the Negro Lynched?
• Author credits: Frederick Douglass
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:21

Catalogue topics

• african-american
• justice
• lynching

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 1:42
2. 01 - Chapter I — 13:32
3. 02 - Chapter II — 15:13
4. 03 - Chapter III — 12:55
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 12:32
6. 05 - Chapter V — 11:58
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 23:48
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 11:41

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