[Detail] Bill and Ellen Thomas, Ages 88 and 81
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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- The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
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- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
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- American Life Histories
- First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
- Voices from the Days of Slavery
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