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William Henry Singleton was born in 10 August 1843 in New Bern, North Carolina. His father was probably William G. Singleton (1823-1881) and his mother was Lett

The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great lib

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examinat

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to lite

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton The memory of my happy, care-free childhood days on the plantation, with my little white and black compa