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A book about slavery and its results from the point of view of Alfred, H.Benners, an Alabaman descent from slave owners

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers'…

Image of the cover of Harrison Berry's book Slavery and Abolitionism as Viewed by a Georgia Slave, published in Atlanta, Georgia in 1861. This forty-six-page pamphlet was Berry's principal antebellum publication.
Berry, a literate slave artisan from…

This item is a letter from General Sherman to the Quartermaster General. Sherman is described as “high strung, quotable, irritable, irreligious, prone to bouts of anxiety and depression” (McDonough). Although most people know General Sherman’s name…

This letter was sent by Horace Park, Union Army chaplain and director of the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island, to Mack, the rest of the name does not show up. But we can determine that Mack is someone else in the Union Army, because Park tells…

These letters were sent between four Confederate officers during the early months of 1864. Henry Constantine Wayne and Albert Cowell had to discuss the huge confusion on where to send the soldiers that were sick. This was a major problem during the…

This item is a group of letters written by Charles James Martin, a Confederate soldier and member of the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment. Martin writes these letters to his family during the Atlanta Campaign. He discusses his health and the war…