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O. T. McCann'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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McCann, a former slave, describes the following aspects of slavery as he experienced them in Hale 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. A transcription is included.
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Text
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600 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1912 December 5 1912 12 05
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130