To Be A Slave by Julius Lester

This compelling radio adaptation of the book To Be a Slave, by Julius Lester, weaves together the culture and history of American slavery through voice readings from a compilation narrative of ex-slaves. Chronicling the slave experience on a very intimate level, Lester’s 1968 work challenges the emotional and moral boundaries of listeners with first-person accounts of slavery – incorporating original language and language patterns as written by Abolitionists, historians, and slaves themselves over the past 200 years. This program was produced in the 1980’s by Ahna Armour for the KPFK radio series Morning Reading, and contains sensitive language.

200 minutes of audio presented in MP3 format on a single compact disc.