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Trap, Diane

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Encyclopedia article about slave narratives. One of the most valuable sources available for understanding the experiences of slaves in the American South is the testimony that they themselves produced in a variety of ways, both during and long after the existence of the "peculiar institution." These testimonials, generally referred to as slave "narratives," include memoirs and autobiographies written by fugitive slaves who fled to the North and were assisted by abolitionists with the publication of their stories, as well as twentieth-century oral interviews with elderly former slaves that recorded their memories of life during slavery and the circumstances of their emancipation.
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  1. Brown, John, Fl. 1854
  2. Craft, Ellen
  3. Craft, William
  4. Federal Writers' Project
  5. Georgia
  6. Slave Narratives
  7. Slaver
  8. Slavery
  9. Slaves
  10. Southern States

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