To be a slave /

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by Lester, Julius,
[ ] Physical details: 160 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subject(s): Enslaved persons --United States --Quotations. | Enslaved persons --United States --Social conditions. | Enslaved persons --United States --Biography. Item type :
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Education Learning Commons 306.3 LES Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160).

To be a slave -- The auction block -- The plantation -- Resistance to slavery I -- Resistance to slavery II -- Emancipation -- After Emancipation.

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.