11 似ている本： アンクル・トムの小屋
ベン・ハー：キリストの物語
A bestseller since 1880...The classic saga of the Roman EmpireFrom a thrilling sea battle to its famous chariot race to the agony of the Crucifixion, this is the epic tale of a prince who became a slave and by a twist of fate and his own skill-won a chance at freedom.
共通テーマ：Spanish language books, History
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：Fugitive slaves, Plantation life, Slaves, Slavery
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：Plantation life, Slaves, Slavery, African Americans
淡色の妻
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.
She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with…
共通テーマ：Plantation life, Slavery, African Americans, History
すべての神の子
This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is "a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism" (The New York Times).Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction
In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live—and love—as he…
共通テーマ：Fugitive slaves, Slavery, African Americans
フレデリック・ダグラス自叙伝
This book is an autobiographical account by runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.
共通テーマ：Slaves, Slavery, African Americans, 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, 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, History
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, 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
最愛の人
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination. It is the story--set in post-Civil War Ohio--of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in…
共通テーマ：Slavery, African Americans, History