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Summary: Informative First Hand Accounts of Slavery
Review: Unlike historians interpreting the lives and conditions of American slaves, those in bondage tell their own stories and allow readers to judge for themselves the South's "Peculiar Institution." This book interviews slaves who lived on plantations throughout the slave-holding states. Subjects discussed range from living conditions, to relationships, to emancipation. How did slaves see their owners? What was their reaction when Federal soldiers marched onto their plantations and announced they were free? Once the shackles of slavery were thrown off, what did the former slaves do? Not in any other work will someone find a more compact and sweeping first-hand account of life as a slave in the years leading up to, into, and beyond the American Civil War.
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Summary: Informative First Hand Accounts of Slavery
Review: Unlike historians interpreting the lives and conditions of American slaves, those in bondage tell their own stories and allow readers to judge for themselves the South's "Peculiar Institution." This book interviews slaves who lived on plantations throughout the slave-holding states. Subjects discussed range from living conditions, to relationships, to emancipation. How did slaves see their owners? What was their reaction when Federal soldiers marched onto their plantations and announced they were free? Once the shackles of slavery were thrown off, what did the former slaves do? Not in any other work will someone find a more compact and sweeping first-hand account of life as a slave in the years leading up to, into, and beyond the American Civil War.
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