Runagate

Runagate

Songs of the Freedom Bound

Smith, Crystal Simone

Duke University Press

05/2025

104

Dura

Inglês

9781478028581

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Foreword / Ce Rosenow xiii
Prefatory Note xix
Prologue. Runagate: What to the Slave Is the Semiquincentennial? 1
Freedom on the Move: Rediscovering the Stories of Self-Liberating People
Haiku Sequences
Henry & Maria 5
Jemmy 7
Lucy 9
Asko or Glasgow 11
Clinton 13
Jack (and Paul) 15
Peter 17
Dave 19
Grace (and Tom) 21
Mariah Frances 23
Peggy 25
John Bull 27
Austin 29
Ely or July 31
Robbin 33
Sam 35
Anderson 37
Emily 39
Harriett, Bella, Elsey, and Milly 41
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Part 1
Tanka
hard worked days 44
one pair of shoes 45
we spent nights 46
for breaking dishes 47
oh my brother's 48
dead slave woman 49
the worst sales- 50
hit in the head 51
our mama cooked 52
Mistress Mary was kind 53
I was awakened 54
day the Yankees came 55
I had sixteen children 56
Smithfield slave market 57
allowed no pleasures 58
Master made me go 59
we worked winter 60
Christmas Eve 61
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Part 2
Tanka Sequences
Ain't You My Child 64
After the Stars Fell 66
Confederate Lieutenant Robert Walsh 68
Joe High 69
Sarah Anne Green 70
Essex Henry 72
Epilogue. Haibun for Ancestor Ernestine Turner (b. 1827) 75
Acknowledgments 77
Freedom on the Move: A Note 79
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African American haiku; Black nature poetics; slave advertisements; Fredrick Douglass; Freedom on the Move database Cornell University; slave narratives; Federal Writers' Project; Ernestine Turner; Haibun; Frogpond journal; ekphrastic tanka sequences; folk history