Octavia Victoria Albert

There are several discrepancies about her birth/death date. The New Orleans, La Death Index Record confirms dates and place of death-- from Ancestor.com

This record: New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804-1949, seems to conclusively validate the date of death as 18 August 1889.

New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949 Birth, Marriage & Death Name Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert Birth abt 1854; Death 18 Aug 1889 - Age: 35

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This record appears erroneous: Birth: unknown Death: Aug. 18, 1880

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Find A Grave Estabkishes date as Aug. 18, 1880

Burial: Carrollton Cemetery New Orleans Orleans Parish Louisiana, USA Plot: Old Plan Lot 366

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A full electronic version of her book is found here:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/albert/albert.html

THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE ORCHARLOTTE BROOKS AND OTHER SLAVES ORIGINAL AND LIFE-LIKE, AS THEY APPEARED IN THEIR OLD PLANTATION AND CITY SLAVE LIFE; TOGETHER WITH PEN-PICTURES OF THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION, WITH SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS INTO THEIR NEW RELATIONS AS FREEDMEN, FREEMEN, AND CITIZENS

BY MRS. OCTAVIA V. ROGERS ALBERT

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. BISHOP WILLARD F. MALLALIEU, D.D. NEW YORK: HUNT & EATON CINCINNATI: CRANSTON & STOWE 1890 Page verso

Copyright, 1890, by HUNT & EATON, NEW YORK. Page v

PREFACE.

THE following pages, giving the result of conversations and other information gathered, digested, and written by Mrs. Octavia V. Rogers, deceased wife of the Rev. A.E.P. Albert, A.M., D.D., first appeared in the columns of the South-western Christian Advocate, some months after her death, as a serial story, under the name of The House of Bondage. It was received with such enthusiasm and appreciation that no sooner was the story concluded than letters poured in upon the editor from all directions, urging him to put it in book form, so as to preserve it as a memorial of the author, as well as for its intrinsic value as a history of negro slavery in the Southern States, of its overthrow, and of the mighty and far-reaching results derived therefrom.

        No special literary merit is claimed for the work. No special effort was made in that direction; but as a panoramic exhibition of slave-life, emancipation, and the subsequent results, the story herein given, with all the facts brought out, as each one speaks for himself Page vi

and in his own way, is most interesting and life-like.

        The conversations herein given are not imaginary, but actual, and given as they actually occurred. No one can read these pages without realizing the fact that "truth is often stranger than fiction." As such we present it to the public as an unpretentious contribution to an epoch in American history that will more and more rivet the attention of the civilized world as the years roll around.

        An only daughter unites with the writer in sending out these pages penned by a precious and devoted mother and wife, whose angelic spirit is constantly seen herein, and whose subtle and holy influence seems to continue to guide and protect both in the path over which they since have had to travel without the presence and cheer of her inspiring countenance.

        To her sacred memory these pages, the result of her efforts, are affectionately inscribed.

A.E.P. ALBERT.

LAURA T.F. ALBERT. EDITORIAL ROOMS South-western Christian Advocate, NEW ORLEANS, LA., November 15, 1890.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_V._Rogers_Albert Octavia V. Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – c.1890)

New Orleans, Louisiana, Death Records Index, 1804-1949 Record

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Birth, Marriage & Death Name: Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert Birth: year Death: 18 August'1889 in city, Orleans, Louisiana, United States In Ancester.com, there is a record, Marne, France Births, 1501-1907, listing Victor-Octave Albert,Morangis, France. -- any connection???--check out

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Albert, Octavia V. Rogers

Octavia V. Rogers Albert Octavia V. Rogers Albert (December 24, 1853 – c.1890) was a chronicler of slavery in the United States. She was born Octavia Victoria Rogers in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the Emancipation. She attended Atlanta University where she studied to be a teacher.

Unlike many others, Octavia Rogers saw teaching as a form of worship and Christian service. She received her first teaching job in Montezuma, Georgia. In 1874, at around twenty-one years old, she married another teacher, A.E.P. Albert, who later became an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Not too long after the two married they relocated to Houma, Louisiana. Here Octavia began conducting interviews with men and women who were once enslaved. These interviews were the raw material for her collection of narratives, The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, published in 1890. Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert died before The House of Bondage became widely known.

Sources American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 217-218. External links The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life-Like, As They Appeared in Their Old Plantation and City Slave Life complete text of original 1890 edition, along with cover & title page images.

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Stone above tomb Octavia Rogers - 08-18-1880 85y 8m wife of Rev A E P Albert O D native of Oglelborne

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Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (1824–c. 1890), biographer of former slaves, educator, and community leader. Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert is best known for her volume of collected slave narratives, The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1890). The collection assembles the brief narratives (as told to Albert) of seven former slaves whose earnest testimonies, Albert believed, exposed the brutality of slaveholding in general and the hypocrisy of Christian slaveholding in particular. But more importantly, the narratives demonstrated, according to Albert, the narrators’ spiritual courage and strong Christian faith.

Albert was born a slave on 12 December 1824 in Oglethorpe, Georgia, but neither slavery nor its far-reaching effects stifled her achievements. After the Civil War, she attended Atlanta University and became a teacher, interviewer, and researcher. Asserting that the complete story of slavery had not been told, she invited former slaves into her home, taught some to read and write, sang hymns and read scriptures to others, and encouraged them all to recount their histories, which she recorded.

In her comments, which weave a sympathetic and outraged voice throughout the narratives, Albert decries the inhumanity of slavery and continually raises the alarm over slaveholders who professed Christian ideals of compassion and brotherhood; they would carry the sin of slavery upon their souls. But as much as Albert yearned to set straight the record of the past, she also looked with optimism toward the future of the freed people. If they saved their earnings, bought homes, educated their children, built up character, obeyed the laws of the country, served God, and protested injustices, their status would improve.

Albert was married to the Reverend A. E. P. Albert. She met him in 1873 during her first teaching assignment in Montezuma, Georgia, where he was teaching at the same school. They were married the following year on 21 October 1874 and moved to Houma, Louisiana (where Albert conducted her interviews with former slaves). In 1877, her husband was ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 1878, Albert, who was a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, converted to her husband's denomination. She was baptized by her husband.

Albert's husband and their only child, Laura T. F. Albert, published The House of Bondage a few months after the author's death as a serial story in the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Its popularity encouraged publication in book form as a memorial to the author. Bibliography Octavia V. Rogers Albert, The House of Bondage, 1893; rpt. 1988. Frances Smith Foster, Written by Herself, 1993

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http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/albert-octavia-victoria-rogers-1853... Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers (1853-1890)

Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, a 19th century author and religious leader, was born in December 25, 1853 in Oglethorpe, Georgia into slavery. She draws inspiration from that experience for her book The House of Bondage which was published after her death by her husband and daughter in 1890. In 1870, Octavia enrolled in the Atlanta University. Three years later she began teaching in Montezuma, Georgia. There she met A.E.P. Albert and the two married in 1874. They had one daughter named Laura T. Albert.

Octavia Albert always had a strong religious faith. In Oglethorpe, she attended the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, which was under the ministry of former Congressman and prominent political activist Bishop Henry M. Turner. There she decided to devote her life to the church and her faith. In 1877, A.E.P. Albert was ordained as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. When he was ordained, she converted to Methodism and was baptized by him in 1888 after the family had moved to Houma, Louisiana. It was not common practice to take a professional position because of her husband’s standing and for the first time in her adult life, Octavia Albert became a full-time housewife, mother.

In Houma, Albert was known as a community and religious leader. Often, members of the community gathered at her home to share stories of their lives as slaves. As she became acquainted with the former slaves who shared their stories she decided to collect them in the book, The House of Bondage. Rogers, a skilled interviewer and writer, was able to convey on paper the powerful recollections of these former slaves. Also The House of Bondage was one of the first collections of the stories and memories of former enslaved people.

Although Albert’s book was based on a series of interviews with over a dozen ex-slaves, the main dialogue was with Charlotte Brooks who was torn unwillingly from her parents and children when they were sold elsewhere in the South.

The interviews in the book, recorded over 15 years after the end of slavery, documented vivid accounts of harsh treatment towards Louisiana slaves and the negative effects on the livelihood of ex-slaves after their emancipation. The House of Bondage also recorded how some ex-slaves were able to progress since Emancipation and become part of society. Albert claimed her goal in writing The House of Bondage book was to tell the story of ex-slaves as well as to “correct and to create history.” Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert is thought to have died around 1890 in Houma, Louisiana.

Sources: Octavia V. Rogers Albert, The House of Bondage or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988); Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in America: The Early Years, 1619-1899 (New York: Facts on File, Inc, 1997); Frances Smith Foster. "Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers" American National Biography Online (Feb. 2000); Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, eds., Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982)

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Heung, Camille University of Washington

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Author of "House of Bondage" Read On-line book at: http://books.google.com/books?id=JdESAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&s...

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by Tonya Bolden

1. Octavia V. Rogers Albert (1853-c.1890) was born Octavia Victoria Rogers in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where she lived in slavery until the Emancipation. Like millions of freed men, women, and children, she had a deep yearning for learning, and eventually, at Atlanta University, she studied to be a teacher .

This steady young woman was as serious about being a stalwart Christian as she was about being a sterling teacher. While still living in Oglethorpe, she had joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was led by the legendary Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Not unlike many of her contemporaries, Octavia Victoria Rogers saw teaching as a form of worship and Christian service. Her first teaching job was in Montezuma, Georgia. There, in 1874, when she was about twenty-one years old, she married another teacher at this school: A.E.P. Albert, who later became an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, which Octavia was later to join. Soon after their marriage, the Alberts moved to Houma, Louisiana, where Octavia began conducting interviews with men and women once enslaved. These interviews were the raw material for what became her intelligent collection of narratives, The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Others Slaves. "Never forget" could have been this work's second subtitle. As scholar Frances Smith Foster has observed, "the hymn that concludes Albert's volume summarizes her theme that abolition was the triumph of God's will over evil and that those who have been delivered must return to tell the story."

Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert did not live to see The House of Bondage reach the public. It was shortly after her death that the New Orleans-based Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper the South-western Christian Advocate serialized the work from January to December 1890. In 1891, owing to the efforts of the author's husband and their only child, Laura T. F. Albert, The House of Bondage was published in book form.

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Octavia Albert (1853-1899) Albert was born a slave in Georgia, but after emancipation became a teacher and eventually a writer. In an objective, journalistic style,she wrote"The House of Bondage," a series of conversations with former slaves. Her work remains invaluable to the study of African American history, as it is one of the few at- tempts to document that period in American life.