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Slavery -- America -- History -- 18th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Slave narratives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 5896
Scope and Contents Over 375 slave narratives printed from microfilm. These interviews of former slaves and children of former slaves took place between 1936 and 1938. A typescript of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Narratives cover slavery in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Accounts describe treatment of slaves: whipping, auctioning and slaves being forced by masters to...
Dates: approximately 1936-1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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