Isaac Winslow has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Summary
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was published in 1845; it is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by the famous author and former slave Frederick Douglass. The book includes two introductions by well-known abolitionists: a preface by William Lloyd Garrison, and a letter by Wendell Phillips, both confirming the veracity of the account and the literacy of its author. It is generally considered to be the most famous of a number of abolition narratives written by former slaves in the same era. The narrative describes the events of Douglass’s life over 11 chapters, from his childhood to emancipation. The book was an immediate success and received critical acclaim, also in Europe.
Public Domain (P)2019 Woodkeep Audio
Cast off the Mill-Stone
Summary
In this work, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass points out the evils of the policy of protecting and preserving slavery. Among them was the fact that it would deprive the Union of the aid that might be rendered it by four million slaves. Another evil of the policy was the chilling effect it exerted upon the moral sentiment of mankind.
Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks
Bible History of the Negro
Summary
Richard Alburtus Morrisey was an Afro-American biblical scholar, a doctor of divinity, and the pastor of a number of churches in Pennsylvania and in the South. In 1915, he published Bible History of the Negro in the hope of promoting the study of the Bible. The book brings together all the references to Black people in the scriptures, including Ham, son of Noah, Batsheba, Simon of Cyrene, Nimrod, Melchizedek, Hagar, Ishmael, Rahab, and Candace, queen of Ethiopia. It provides a detailed overview of all the relevant passages in scripture, and it caters to questions regarding race and the Bible.
Public Domain (P)2020 Woodkeep Audio