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D. M. McIntosh's response to H. C. Nixon's questionnaire about slavery in Alabama.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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McIntosh describes the following aspects of slavery as he observed them in Wilcox County, Alabama: dwellings and possessions; clothing and food; occupations and typical workdays; money earned by slaves for their own use; family life; entertainment; education; religion and morality; visitation privileges and runaways; relationships between masters and slaves; emancipation; free African Americans; and whites who did not own slaves.
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1913 April 1 1913 04 01
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Mc Intosh, D. M
  4. Nixon, H. C
  5. Plantation Life
  6. Slaver
  7. Slavery
  8. Wilcox County (Ala.)

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