South Carolina Slave Narratives

South Carolina Slave NarrativesThe view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex slaves

Author: Christina Hardyment

Written by Peggy Thomas

From George Washington's Mount Vernon to the Kennedy Center

First he is shipwrecked in a strange land

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29 Classic campaign slogans on one mug - from Adlai to Zachary

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which resides in the Library of Congress

54 black and white photographs

When visiting the Great Hall in the Library of Congress' Thomas Jefferson building