11 似ている本： フレデリック・ダグラス自叙伝
十二年間の奴隷
Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation.
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery, Personal narratives, African Americans
わが束縛とわが自由
Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.
共通テーマ：African American abolitionists, Abolitionists, Slaves, Slavery
オラウダ・エキアーノ、もしくはグスタヴス・ヴァッサ、アフリカ人の生涯
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a look at how slavery stood in West Africa, the book received favorable reviews and was one of the first slave narratives to be read widely.
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir
アンクル・トムの小屋
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped…
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery, African Americans, History
奴隷より上に
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he…
共通テーマ：Slaves, African Americans, Biography & Memoir, History
ある奴隷少女の生涯の記録
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to…
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery, Biography & Memoir, History
荒れ騎兵
"The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas…
共通テーマ：Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History
黒人連隊の軍隊生活
"Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote…
共通テーマ：Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir, History
ヘンリー・アダムズの教育
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into the void of death," Adams wrote and privately printed 100 copies of his "Education", a reflection on the incredible events of the 19th century. Adams meditates on his sense of disorientation with the scientific and…
共通テーマ：Dictionaries, English language, Biography & Memoir, History
無何有の国
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the…
共通テーマ：Slaves, Biography & Memoir, History
プッドンヘッド・ウィルソンの悲劇
A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son.
This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery