Click2History - Slave Voices - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>SLAVE VOICES</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch1.htm">1. STORY PREFACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch2.htm">2. SLAVES IN THE NEW WORLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch3.htm">3. KIDNAPPED AFRICANS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch4.htm">4. PASSAGE TO THE NEW WORLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch5.htm">5. FREEDOM - BUT NOT FOR SLAVES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch6.htm">6. "POWERS OF THE MIND"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch7.htm">7. REBELLION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch8.htm">8. ESCAPE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch9.htm">9. TRIPS ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch10.htm">10. TRICKS AND DETERMINATION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch11.htm">11. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAWS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch12.htm">12. PUNISHMENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch13.htm">13. FORMER SLAVES BECOME ABOLITIONISTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch14.htm">14. "BUYING" AND "SELLING" PEOPLE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch15.htm">15. A "TERRIBLE TIME"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch16.htm">16. PLANTATION LIFE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch17.htm">17. SPLIT-UP FAMILIES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch18.htm">18. LAST FREE LABOR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch19.htm">19. WHAT WAS IT LIKE?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="slave_voices_ch20.htm">20. HUMAN SPIRIT PREVAILS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">The race must not forget the rock<br> from whence they were hewn,<br> nor the pit<br> from whence they were digged.</b></i><br><br></b> <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/rbc/rbcmisc/ody/ody0211/0211002r.jpg" target="_blank"> William Still</a><br> "Father of the Underground Railroad"<br> 1879<br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner, has dedicated his career to one objective: making sure no one forgets what happened to his people during Hitler’s Third Reich. To that end, thousands of survivors have had their stories electronically recorded. We are able to see their anguished faces and hear their breaking voices as they describe their personal tragedies.</p> <p>But what of that other long-persecuted people - Africans - who were uprooted from their homes, transported to unknown lands and made to serve the needs of foreigners? Where are their stories? Thanks to people like William Still, slave narratives have been preserved in books and sketches. And thanks to the Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives, some of their stories have been digitized and are available on-line.</p> <p>Here, then, are slave voices speaking to us from the past.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="slave_voices_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p><br>  </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>