Slavery in the United States:
Primary Sources and the Historical Record
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[Detail] The Child's Anti-Slavery Book

Slavery in the United States, 1790-1865

What specific information about slaves and slavery can you see in (or infer from) these photographs and text documents?

Cumberland Landing, Virginia, Group of “contrabands” at Foller's house May 14, 1862	Auction and Negro Sales, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia (1864)
The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga. [1907?]	The Hermitage, slave quarters, Savannah, Ga. [1907?]

• Excerpt from "Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen" (1864)
• Excerpt from "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?" (1859)
• Excerpt from "My Ups and Downs," an interview with Kert Shorrow" (1939)
• Excerpt from "Mrs. Lulu Bowers II," an interview with Mrs. Lulu Bowers (1938)
• Excerpt from "E.W. Evans, Brick Layer & Plasterer," an interview with E.W. Evans (undated)

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