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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…

Map of Atlanta and the surrounding area in 1864

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…