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I read this book already it shows the strength and resilience of TheBlack man and how he has the ability to Overcome Any hardship placed before him . A must read for All . In my opinion .

I have learnt so much, tho the author is a truly noble man to speak with such equanimity about such horrors. It ought to be required reading for those who try to propound the anti-historical notion that the Civil War was not about slavery.

How could anybody treat another human being like that unless they were demon possessed

Sold all seven of her children to different masters, he was the last one and she followed the horse until her master grabbed her arm and drug her back to the plantation while screaming and crying, Lord Jesus just the thought makes me want to cry😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😱😫😫

How could anyone, in any time, have ever thought it was OK to “own“ another human being? “When I was sold [I think he was 4 years old], I was naked, never having had on clothes in my life.” As he was let away on a horse, he heard his mothers cries and then never heard her voice again. Our nation is still severely damaged by this “original sin”--the owning and abuse of slaves over hundreds of years. We can pretend it never happened--or fight for justice at every opportunity.

Wish the first narrator read the whole book

Great narration by the first male narrator. The second female was so difficult to understand that I am looking for another production. Such a sad, horrible history. I pray we learn from those horrible people who justified the abuse of fellow humans for a genteel lifestyle. Let us never repeat these abuses but learn from these accounts.

His reverie of his children that he was forced to leave behind was truly heart breaking. We humans have such beauty in us, and craven cruelty that is horrible to witness. How I wish there was a way to reach back and offer a bit of comfort.

No one seems to be commenting on the pride in his work, the compassion he displayed towards the people he encountered and the dignity that the man the book was written about had, in what is obviously the horrific day to day misery that he was subjected to. Why doesn't anyone see how amazing so many of those enslaved people were? The amount of character and kindness and self respect they had while facing the difficulties of living as a slave needs to be recognized and accorded far more respect instead of everyone focusing on the torture they endured. just my opinion

Wild, savage and shocking beyond belief. After listening to this book I can say with absolute conviction that I've never had any problem at all in the 4 decades I've lived on this earth. Even the beasts that roam about in primitive jungles are living in luxury compared to this.

Horrible, I often find an audio book and put it on as i lay down to bed, Today it was fifty years, i woke to chapter 12 to hear the short story of Paul, I silently sit and draw a metal picture of the narrative To be honest even though i listen to the story i can't Fathom or even begin to grasp how folk could have been so cruel to other human being, I want to say so much but i find myself not being able to say anything at all, My mind keeps going to God, I pray for Paul Hundred's of years after the fact, I pray he has a place with our lord, God bless all those who had lived under these conditions and please help and guide me & those in this world to be the best we can be .. i walk away speechless.

Amazing, Calvert needs to dedicate a library to this man.

I started this to sleep to, and I guess I missed the bad narrators. But keep going! I just finished chapter 12, and it is riveting! Horrific, but such necessary reading.

Chapter 3-5 were hard to understand the narrators need to be able to speak better English. A for effort, but didn’t understand most of those 3 chapters.

Charles was quite an intelligent and diligent person. He could have done well running his own business

Still want to see this as a film

It's good to learn black history, that you can't learn in school. Thank you.

Please keep the same reader! The first reader was awesome, thank for sharing and shame on those bastards my they rot in hell! I’m crying my eyes out for those poor men,women and children for their slavery! I’m so angry right now!

Thank you for a wonderful gift of such talented readers .I reallly enjoyed it

In the 50’s I lived in Detroit. When I was 8, my family visited Pace, Florida. Girlfriends and I were walking on the sidewalk and a black man was coming toward us moved off the sidewalk when we walked by. I couldn’t believe it! That didn’t happen in Detroit! What a cultural shock even back then! I told my mother and she said that’s how it was in the south!

I was so into this until the New reader started chapter three (3)...I Can’t! If it’s male character its BEST to have a Male reader! ***** One of the saddest memoir told without an happy ending.

The Russian narrator is difficult to understand somewhat but she is a volunteer and I think that is very nice of her to read.

the chapter 3 reader is SO hard to understand.

When he knocked on the door of his wife’s cabin, I could cry! 🥲🙏🏻

It’s incredible that the slaves were so fortunate to get their story out and turned into a novel. Sad that 4.5x as many slaves were sold to the middle east, castrated, and terminated so that the truth is never revealed. Still goes on today; yet we worry about getting kickbacks in ukraine.

Fantastic account of strife and resilience. Some readers had excellent inflection and diction, some not so much. Those who fall under ESL, were better than some native readers of the English language. All have excellent pronunciation.

I have just discovered why I never subscribed to Audio Books. The stories of the slaves are very interesting BUT the readers are sub-par. 50years a Slave was ruined by the poor reading ability of the speakers. Some of the readers are very good but the poor readers ruin the storyline.

This is a gripping story. After listening to this I did a little research of Charles Ball. This reading is abridged, his entire story is not told. He was a sailor and a cook in the war of 1812. He is memorialized on a monument in Maryland. Now to the scholarly belief, it is believed that the person Charles Ball was made up by an abolitionist, a lawyer who incorporated story's of slaves to inform the people of the horrific condition of slavery in the south. One of the arguments is the fact of Charles's literacies. I myself don't know what to believe, whether or not Charles was "real". I do however believe the tale is a reality of treatment of black slaves in the united states. I believe in the bravery and strength of these forefathers of America's Black citizens. I also believe in the degradation and torture slaves had to endure. The inhumane conditions and cruelty inflicted on them. On a personal level this story has pierced my heart. It shall remain with me when I think of slavery. Now it is up to you to make up you're own mind.

All the slaves will be in heaven how did they survive bless thee souls ✝

The narrator of chapter 12 was wonderful so was the man or narrator name James. Chapter 12 sounds like an older man and he told the story great thank you for that that means a lot and makes a lot of difference in hearing the story

S0rry I could not do the earlier chapters, Maybe someone will. 03:37:00 Ch 08 03:45:17 Ch 09 pt. 1 04:17:00 Ch 09 pt. 2 04:47:00 Ch 10 05:37:15 Ch 11 pt. 2 05:58:58 Ch 12 06:30:22 Ch 13 06:53:24 Ch 14 pt 1 07:15:51 Ch 14 pt 2 07:35:40 Ch 15 08:01:00 Ch 16 08:33:30 Ch 17 08:58:32 Ch 18 pt 1 09:21:42 Ch 18 pt 2 09:46:16 Ch 19 10:10:11 Ch 20 pt 1 10:29:54 Ch 20 pt 2

Volunteer or not there should be a criteria as to who shou be allowed to volunteer. I am hard in hearing & regardless of nationality the individual should absolutely be audible & keep up the same energy & volume as the previous reader.

I can only listen to this audiobook in increments of 5 - 6 minutes at a time. My stomachs turns with such devastating atrocities of cruelness to human beings... children, adults and the elderly. May each descendent be blessed beyond measure for the past and continuing cruel inequality.😢

I like the first narrator.

Loved the 1st narrator and would have lived to listen to the full book but the following narrators were difficult to listen to.

They treated our people horrible God has a special place in hell for people like that

I really don't like the woman reading you can't hear or understand her

i am enjoying these books and in particular this one although I find it horrendous that anyone could treat another human being as such. It is a shame the Russian reader is not as proficient in reading the English language as she should be. It has spoiled this story for me. I find it very difficult to understand her although I do understand she has volunteered, but still!!!!!!!Thank you for making this book available free.

Doesn’t matter who is telling the story. It’s very well written and the author comes through no matter who speaks his words (:

I want to finish listening. But I can’t understand the woman’s voice.

The first 5 min should lead every American history class so the entire truth of this can be known.

I really like this narrator’s voice.

What strikes me is how little their children learned from this. After being forced to be the building blocks of dream builders, their children seemed to only learn that making it means getting paid to build someone else's dream.

The ' cat-hauling ' incident totally stopped me in my tracks ..unbelievable barbarism!! I wept .

The way the slave masters tortured these people physically, it is insane they would talk about Jesus suffering on across.

The president Charles Ball encountered was President Andrew Jackson in 1830. Slavery wasn't outlawed in Egypt until 1904.

It took me over a month to listen to all of this. I kept imaging the suffering these slaves went through. I think that the beatings were the worst thing that I have ever heard of. How can ANYONE justify beating someone with a whip.

What a pity, the first narrator did not do all the book. I cannot understand most of the words of the non-English language narrator.

2:42:18 I can’t tolerate anymore anymore of the book because of the reader beginning chapter 4.

I really enjoyed listening to this sad story of our American history. And I appreciate all of the narrators.

Its a second atrocity that some politicians are trying to lessen the severity of this history.

The 2 narrators that come on at 1:20:00ish are the worst!! I had to skip over their chapters. Seriously!! 🤨

I wish the first man had narrated the whole book. Didn't finish listening as I couldn't relax the way the next few were reading.

Thanks so much

Let us continue to bear witness.

First narrator was audible and clear

chapter 3 is clear and understandable at a slower speed.

Terrifies me how many people are more than willing to be evil.

I appreciate this reader :) thank you !

This is how human beings treat other human beings. Shameful.

Not complaining but much as I wanted to finish I could not because its hard to understand certain chapters. I hope someone re_read this. Thanks

I used to live by the gamble plantation in ellenton fl and i used to think dam i live in the fields where slaves work and image i hard it had to be

Thank you!

I don't know why I waited for some kind of happy ending.

30 years a slave is sad but Awesome audio book... Probably one of the best....

Very interesting book. I totally agree with those who say that chapter 3 was poorly read. I personally lost interest in the events of chapter 3, thanks to the reader. Am glad she was never featured in reading the rest of the book I however ask did the slave Charles ball really leave and wrote these accounts or this is purely fiction; a book that is giving an account of the sufferings and humiliations African Americans had to undergo and endure during the days of slavery otherwise the book was both interesting and moving

The first reader had clearer speech & was easier to understand.

You lost me when the Russian started reading

Why oh why did the narrator get replaced after chapter 3😒 I agree with everyone saying, Male characters should be read by Male narrators. Uhhhhh I want to hear the whole story and don't know if I can handle it

Who y'all got reading this book🤔🤔🤔

POWERFUL

This absolutely sickens & angers me each time over the decades I've heard this or similar. Do you know how many times I've tried to do a family tree & can only get so far. I hope all these people & their descendents have a hot roasting, miserable existence wherever they are. Who should pay & when for this brutality & inhumane sickness?

An extremely difficult testimony to hear, extremely!!! “The Truth will set you Free” ✝️ We need Truths and Facts more than ever!!! God help us and have mercy on us ✝️🙏

I’m sorry but it’s tough to listen to this being read by a YT person.😢

I really cannot believe this! I was listening to this book the narrator was absolutely wonderful! Then a new chapter starts and some girl comes on narrating I could not understand anything she was saying! Pronouncing every single thing wrong! This must be a bad joke in very bad taste why would they do that? I'm trying to find a word or two in a sentence to try to understand and put it together! Thank you very much for ruining this experience by putting somebody on that does not speak or understand a word of what she is saying

Funny how the Florida Board of Education under the control of Governer DeSantis has mandated that public school teachers instruct their students that slavery had very many positive aspects. Yeah, I'm sure Mr. Ball would have heartily agreed. Seriously, how can Floridians (and others I'm sure) remotely think that slavery had any benefits for the enslaved? It's madness. Is this book banned in Florida public schools and in other states of the former Confederacy?

Your a beautiful story teller❤

Wonder what plantation he worked on in South Carolina? I can’t seem to find any history of it.

thank you

"And you shall become an atonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither YAHUAH (God) shall lead you". Deuteronomy 28: 37

I CAN'T HEAR OR UNDERSTAND THE SECOND READER... BUT IT WAS GOOD UP TIL THEN... BYE I CAN'T FINISH

I was reading along with my book with this audio. The audio skipped a lot of sections, scenes and other slaves' stories.. Please don't state this is a full book, when it is not. You're taking away from its history and timeline. I enjoyed the first narrator.

Dude..chapter 3 woman reader is really difficult to understand. This is crummy because the 1st guy was so good and easy to listen to

54:00 1:10:48 chap 3

Would be the worst thing that could happen to a human. Oh fn dear!!! :'(

To think there are monsters who long for this world.

OMG love it

5:10:00

"And YAHUAH (God) shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other elohiym (god), which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone." Deuteronomy 28:64

Slavery started and was main supplier of slaves were the French/ Spain.These country continued well after USA fought to end slavery

"And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but YAHUAH (God) shall give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life". Deuteronomy 28:64-66

Chapter 3 is ok if you actually listen.

After listening to the entire narrative I am back at 1:53 with the lady with the terrible accent. I realized later there's a variety of people doing reading, so I skipped past her & listened to the rest. Now I will go through the ordeal of listening to her closer to the computer, hoping to understand her, as I don't want to miss what she read. I wonder if I missed much re his family, as he never said much about them. I thought he had no wife & kids until I came to the very end.....after a half hour or more I give up. She keeps moving her voice away from her speaker also, so it's so hard to follow I'm leaving again. Other than that, it was an amazing, fascinating account.

Trying to understand the narrator in chapter 3.

Man this was hard to listen to. How on earth would anyone ever thing it's human or fit to treat humans in this manner. Evil bloodlines. Hope they are rotten in hell and live with extreme generational curses.

Having one narrator through out would go a long way in the enjoyment of any book. Narrator # 2 is so awful. I recently heard her on another recording and just had to skip it since I couldn't ID the characters' names albeit they were Greek and unfamiliar to my ear. Maybe to her too for all I know. 3rd Narrator picks up @ 2:47.

Yes, and my people were treated badly also... Native Americans. So were my husband's people, the Jews. I hate that any race was mistreated, but we need to remember all of them.

Chapter 3, you didn't get a volunteer who speaks English properly?!

the Arabian chick just throws it off