Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom

The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter

By: Louis Hughes

Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins

The autobiography of Louis Hughes serves as a window on the daily lives of slaves before and during the Civil War. Born into slavery near Charlottesville, Virginia in 1832, the narrative charts his life through Pontotoc, Mississippi to Memphis where he met his wife Matilda Morgan, to Tombigbee, Alabama and escape from slavery in Mississippi in 1865. Hughes provides unique historical insight into slavery in the Confederacy during the Civil War and concludes with the family living as free people in Milwaukee.

Public Domain (P)2019 Museum Audiobooks

Great book but the narration was choppy

The narration was choppy and read in a cadence like he was reading a children's book. He got better deeper into the book, but it was distracting and borhersome.

Painful listening to Narrator’s....

Droning, none expressionless reading. I mean very painful. His tone more suited for reading a quantum physics textbook. Other than this infliction, very eye opening material.