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| | Bad Subjects: Review Essay: Francis Bok's Escape from Slavery and Contemporary Slave Narratives |
 | | Slave narratives, published today primarily in journalistic media and human rights reports, project intense political force in large part because readerships believe they should not be reading such reports in the contemporary era, that the act of human enslavement is an historic relic. | | | As Bok later notes in his encounters with antagonistic Arab students in the United States, his escape, shelter, and eventual ticket to Khartoum was the work of Abdah and his wife, who believed that their neighbors had no right to enslave human beings. | | | While international aid agencies and human rights organizations are producing a new bureaucratic literature of slavery in their English-language interviews and administrative reports, slavery happens in a chaotic multiplicity of vernaculars. |
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http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2004/69/lockard.html
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| | Excerpts from Slave Narratives |
| | Although there is no general essay explaining why these primary sources were chosen, the website’s editor, American historian Steven Mintz, introduces each document with an illustrative sentence or short paragraph that describes the historical context; these prefaces provide additional information that make the narratives more accessible to a general audience. | | | A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, | | | Teachers will find Mintz’s documents invaluable in promoting classroom discussion. |
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/whm/d/30.html
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| | Slavery Bibliography at the C.W. Post Library |
| | The history of the New York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787 to the present time, embracing a period of more than forty years; also a brief account of the successful labors of the New York Manumission Society, with an appendix..., / Charles C. Andrews. | | | Domestic abolitionism and juvenile literature, 1830-1865 / De Rosa, Deborah C. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003. | | | Port Washington, NY : Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, 1998. |
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http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslvbib.htm
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| | Temple Times: HBO production elicits interest in slave narratives |
| | “Most of these narratives [were] taken by whites,” she said, adding that the interviewers often tried to prompt the former slaves as they told their stories, asking them if it was really that bad. | | | In light of this pressure, it took a lot of courage for those interviewed to counter their interviewers with the truth, said Forbes. | | | Despite his experiences, White’s father urged his children not to hate white people, instilling in them instead a sense of pride in who they are. |
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http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/3-6-03/unchained.html
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| | CSULB Online 49er: v10n79: Film displays slave narratives |
| | Over 2,000 interviews were conducted, forming a first-hand account of slave life told by former slaves. | | | The 74-minute documentary is based on interviews conducted by journalists of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administrations, sponsored by the Federal Writer’s Project from 1936-1938. | | | The first 21 Africans in America were said to have been brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virg., in 1619. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2003/spring/diversions/v10n79-fil.shtml
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| | 91.03.08: Dark Voices From Unmarked Graves |
| | The second passage is written by an almost scholarly black man who looks positively to the future for full acceptance in the country whose freedom, along with his own, he has secured in battle. | | | In this unit, however, I suggest that the teacher focus upon the kidnapping and enslavement of the speaker (Being Chapter II of The Interesting Narrative) (Brawley, pp. | | | Slave men told of their flight to freedom, a direct route to manhood. |
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http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/3/91.03.08.x.html
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| | It should be noted that some of the writers brought stereotypical views of blacks to their work. | | | Go to Western Historic Manuscripts/University Archives home page. | | | Narratives of ex-slaves in other states are also included as part of the Rawick Papers. |
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http://www.umsl.edu/~libweb/blackstudies/moslave.htm
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| | The Slave Narrative |
| | Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841... | | | Narratives of slavery recounted the personal experiences of ante-bellum African Americans who had escaped from slavery and found their way to safety in the North. | | | The Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland contains online versions of primary sources such as proclamations, letters from slaves, court testimony, and other documents from the National Archives as well as essays on the period 1861-1867. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/slave.htm
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| | Slave Narratives |
| | She was lying down most of the time during my interview. | | | Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. | | | Mawster Foley was putty good to us, but I believe dat we was owned by him when slavery ended, and he never did tell us about it. |
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http://tdcweb.com/tdfhsdr/driver/african_american/narratives.htm
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| | Slave Narratives |
| | The narratives are introduced in a scholarly fashion and background information is provided for the excerpts of writings and previous studies. | | | The Postbellum Slave Narrative: Assuming the Responsibilities of Freedom | | | The book covers the origins of the narratives and their literary sources, and examines these works from a gender-specific angle, shedding light on the important contributions of writers like Harriet Jacobs. |
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http://www.booksmatter.com/b0737705507.htm
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| | A SON OF AFRICA - Resources for Teachers |
| | I believe many more would very soon have done the same if they had not been prevented by the ship's crew, who were instantly alarmed. | | | Those of us that were the most active were in a moment put down under the deck, and there was such a noise and confusion among the people of the ship as I never heard before to stop her and get the boat out to go after the slaves. | | | Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave of my own country. |
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http://www.newsreel.org/guides/equiano.htm
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| | The Slave Past |
| | Solomon Northrup was a free black who was kidnapped in New York and describes the daily regime of slave life, which begins "there is no such thing as rest..."How does Northup's story compare to some of the women's live we have read about this term? | | | But the slave narratives are not merely individual stories, but testimonials by a representative who speaks for those still enslaved who cannot tell their own stories. | | | These women believed that from their "domestic sphere" of hearth and home they were the moral guardians of the nation, and were especially horrified by slavery's tangible threat to a woman's virtue, as well as by how the slave woman was denied the protection of a legal marriage. |
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http://members.aol.com/nshour/past2.htm
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| | Been Here So Long |
| | As a part of a larger effort (The American Folklore Project) to gather life histories from Americans of all ethnic affiliations, the life histories of the ex-slaves reproduced here capture the recollected experiences of these aging African Americans. | | | The diverse talents and abilities of the interviewers, the advanced age of many of the subjects, and the different standards set by the project supervisors, created wide variations in the reliablity of these narratives from state to state. | | | While the narratives concern the personal experiences of African Americans during slavery and after emancipation, the project itself was a product of the 1930s, and should be understood in this light. |
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http://newdeal.feri.org/asn
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| | JS Online: Slave narratives rise above TV garbage |
| | JS Online: Slave narratives rise above TV garbage | | | The slave narratives were taken from interviews during the 1930s, which amazingly, was the last decade former U.S. slaves were still alive. | | | Oprah Winfrey becomes the voice of a slave woman recalling how she was beaten mercilessly as a child for stealing a biscuit, then punished even more because she had the gumption to fight back. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/feb03/120894.asp?format=print
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| | Wheat Law Library |
| | The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony site presents an account of the history and selected documents and maps of this refuge for escaped slaves. | | | Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century slave narratives. | | | Beginning Library Research on African American Studies contains numerous subject categories, including race/identity, press, literature, and history. |
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http://www.ku.edu/~kulaw/research/uspast.htm
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | This site archives 2,300 oral histories, which you can browse by narrator, keyword, or state. | | | For details about these narratives in particular, see the section "A Note on the Language of the Narratives," which provides background on this project, describes direction and training given to interviewers, and alerts you to cultural stereotypes or biases that might be evident in dialects or other aspects of the stories. | | | Responses could be organized in the form of a Venn diagram. |
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364
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| | Darrell Donnell Darrisaw -- Africana Library, Cornell University |
| | This "relationship" is one whereby the narrative "speaks" to the reader, as he or she reads it. | | | It focuses on three narratives that were written by Black women before 1865 and that show the Black slave woman's experience as she described it to her amanuensis. | | | Letting the narratives "speak" allows one not only to see the similarities between these Black slave women's experiences, but also their differences. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/thesis/darrisaw1987.html
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| | Slave narratives |
| | By their very existence, the narratives demonstrated that African Americans were people with mastery of language and the ability to write their own history. | | | His firm Christian principles in the face of his brutal treatment made him a hero to whites. | | | But many were illiterate, and so dictated their stories to abolitionists. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html
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| | Slavery and the Making of America . Resources . WPA Slave Narratives PBS |
| | The Ohio Historical Society presents 27 interviews with former slaves that were collected by the Federal Writers' Project but never deposited in the Library of Congress. | | | African-American men and women born into slavery were interviewed. | | | This useful series of books divides the WPA slave narratives into thematic groups. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/wpa.html
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| | "Been Here So Long": American Slave Narratives |
| | Students should be encouraged to consider the process through which these narratives were created, and the accompanying Lesson Plans have been formulated to raise issues of authorship and credibility. | | | Having killed 2212 bear, after which he says, "I just quit counting", Holt and the famous pack of dogs, which he had trained, were known by hunters and sportsmen, not only in the Delta but in other states. | | | These narratives are not the direct transciptions of the interviews, and the forms they take differ from narrative to narrative. |
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http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/asn00.htm
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| | Slave Narratives |
| | Copies of the transcripts of the narratives of citizens of Austin and Travis County who were former slaves are housed in the Austin History Center. | | | The local film features readings of the Austin and Travis County narratives by members of Austin’s African American community and historical photographs from the Austin History Center, including images of the former slaves who were interviewed in the WPA Travis County slave narrative project. | | | The slave narratives were made as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in the 1930s that recorded the stories of former slaves and are now housed at the Library of Congress. |
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http://www.ahca.net/slavenarratives.htm
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| | Slave narratives |
| | From the late 1700s to the late 1800s, the slave narrative as a political protest document became the most prevalent form of African-American literature in the pre-Civil war period. | | | Although most slave narratives were written by men, and most critics have focused their attention on those narratives, African-American women did contribute to the genre, albeit, differently than the men. | | | According the critic Robert Stepto, the African American male archetype depicted in most slave narratives is the "articulate hero who discovers links among freedom, literacy and struggle" (Braxton 19) As you read the narratives by Equiano and Douglass, keep this archetype in mind. |
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http://www.tcc.fl.edu/courses/AML1600/units/slavenar.htm
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| | "I will be heard!" Abolitionism in America |
| | Although some masters did teach their slaves to read as a way to Christianize them, most slave owners believed that teaching such skills was useless, if not dangerous. | | | A few wrote slave narratives, which, when published, powerfully exposed the evils of slavery. | | | For many slaves, the ability to read and write meant freedom—if not actual, physical freedom, then intellectual freedom—to maintain relationships amongst family members separated by the slave trade. |
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http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/narratives.htm
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| | ARTSEDGE: Reliving History Through Slave Narratives |
| | For example, students researching the Underground Railroad could tell the story from the point of view of an escaping slave, a person who helps them during their journey, a family member left behind and a bounty hunter who is looking for the escaped slave. | | | After reading narratives from former slaves that were recorded in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writers' Project, students conduct research on slavery, and tell a story based on their findings. | | | Have students tell the story from the point of view of the person in the narrative. |
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http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2358
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Slave Narratives |
| | Taken to New York with his owner, he sought support from the Manumission Society. | | | There's an odd error (one slave is said to have been born in 1881), but Landau provides clear documentation for the individual... | | | Each narrative is compelling in its details of the hardships that slaves faced in their daily lives and the risks and sacrifices they made to obtain their freedom. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/053111743X
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| | North American Slave Narratives |
| | "North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. | | | Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920. | | | This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh
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| | Slave narratives (from African American literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Slave narratives comprise one of the most influential traditions in American literature, shaping the form and themes of some of the most celebrated and controversial writing, both in fiction and in autobiography, in the history... | | | Explores their experiences through transcribed interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s. | | | Collection of the narratives of 13 African-American men and women who spent their lives as slaves. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-232346
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| | Collection of slave narratives and the African-American slavery experience |
| | There is simply no other historical document quite like it. | | | This database provides a more poignant picture of what it was to live as a slave in the American South. | | | iews stands in contrast to other slave narratives that appear in most literature anthologies which were written by the rare few who, against staggering odds, had become literate. |
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http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/biohist/slavnarr/promo.htm
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| | Slave Narratives |
| | The story Frederick Douglass tell in his narrative about his hardships developes the idea that slaves hated their life. | | | Reading the narratives I got the idea that they viewed slavery as a way of life not necessarily a wrong way of life. | | | I feel that the amount of education a slave had received the more they viewed at is wrong, so with little education slavery was excepted by the slaves. |
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http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/Dshaffer/_hist1211/0000015b.htm
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| | Ancestry.co.uk - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38 |
| | These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. | | | This is a great place to spend some time. | | | Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. |
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http://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/library/article.aspx?article=3717
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| | Ex-Slave Narratives |
| | In the interview, he talks about being brought over on a slave ship from Africa, the buying and selling of slaves in New Orleans, the Civil War, the naming of him by his master, his relationship with his master and his time spent in slavery. | | | In this portion of her interview, she talks about the Civil War, house and field slaves, the buying and selling of slaves, the whipping of slaves, and emancipation - which came later in Texas than in other slave states. | | | Smith was born in c.1844 in Liberia, Africa and was approximately 130 years old at the time of this interview. |
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http://www.c-span.org/antietam/narratives.asp
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| | Excerpts from "Slave Narratives and Publication" |
| | Other narrators utilize the book form to earn enough money to buy relatives out of bondage, to support themselves in their old age, or to financially support the causes of abolition. | | | The slave narratives labor to produce multiple types of knowledge, while at the same time they necessarily efface the technology which is the condition of their discursive effects i.e. | | | Through publication's remunerative effects, the slave narratives are published most often as a means whereby the author may earn money. |
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http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~lcasmier/publication.html
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| | Slave Narratives » Exhibits » Old State House |
| | Though they were gathered three-quarters of a century after the abolition of slavery, these eyewitness accounts provide a vivid testament to one of the darkest chapters in the history of our state and nation. | | | For your convenience, these excerpts are arranged so you can search using specific keywords, or browse alphabetically or topically. | | | Slave Narratives » Exhibits » Old State House |
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http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/virtual/slave_narratives.asp
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| | HBO: Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives |
| | In the late 1930s, an estimated 100,000 former slaves were still alive in the United States. | | | In the midst of the Great Depression, from 1936 to 1938, more than 2,000 interviews with one-time slaves were conducted for the Work Projects Administration (WPA) via its Federal Writers' Project, with the transcripts (written in the vernacular of the time) forming a unique firsthand record of slave life. | | | In addition to their in-character readings, the actors sometimes add their own anecdotes and editorial comments, giving a contemporary and emotional perspective to the documentary's serious subject matter as well as archival photographs, authentic slave-era music performed by the McIntosh County Shouters, and creative footage evoking the brutal legacy of slavery in America. |
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http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/unchained_memories
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| | Exploring Slave Narratives/Letter to a character |
| | This assignment will be evaluated on the following: | | | In this activity you will have an opportunity to understand more of Janie's family history, in particular what it was like for her grandmother to be a slave. | | | Explore these sites and find two slave narratives to read: one about a man and one about a woman. |
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http://www4.district125.k12.il.us/faculty/lbrown/TheirEyes/Eyesg2.htm
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| | South Carolina - Slave Narratives, Autobiographies |
| | He describes slave weddings (scroll to page 60), chirstmas gifts (61), funerals (81), "log-rolling" (89), "corn-shucking" (93), and the economic opportunities for black people in South Carolina after the Civil War (137). | | | A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball | | | - 1837 - attests to both the cruelty and tenderness white owners showed their slaves |
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http://www.sciway.net/afam/slavery/firstperson.html
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| | Biographies and Autobiographies |
| | A narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. | | | The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave | | | Rollin, Frank [Frances] A. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany |
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http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-b/@Generic__CollectionView;hf=0
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