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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Woman's Rights Convention 1848 Seneca...
Report of the Woman's Rights Convention 1848A Convention to discuss the SOCIAL, CIVIL, AND RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF WOMAN, was called by the Women of Seneca County, N.Y., and held at the village of...
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Women's Rights, Freedom, & Equality - Abby Kelley Foster 1811-1887
“Go where least wanted, for there you are most needed.” A major figure in the national anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, she spent more than twenty years traveling the country as a tireless...
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The Slave Narratives: Process & Problems
Twenty-Eight Fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. From Still, William, The Underground Rail Road... (Philadelphia, 1883).Photos and quotes of former slaves used in these blog posts...
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19C Southern Emancipated Slave Woman by William Aiken Walker 1839-1921
Freed Female Slave by William Aiken Walker (American genre artist, 1839-1921 best known for depicting poor black emancipated slaves in the post-Reconstruction American South.)
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Ex-slave Mariah Snyder, about 89, Remembers 19C America
Mariah related, "Master Sam had a colored man on the place that give us our A B C's. I'se still got mine, but warn't ever able to get any farther. There was a big pine arbor on the place where we...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Crossing the Saint Lawrence from Levis to Quebec on a SleighCornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years...
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Ex-slave Teshan Young, about 86, Christmas Memories
Teshan remembered, "When do chores am done on Sunday or Christmas, we'uns can have de music, dance and singin'. We'uns have some good ole times. De songs am de ole timers, sich as Swanee River, Ole...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Dolly Sumner Lunt 1864 in Georgia
A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantationof Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge) :Dolly Lunt...
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Ex-Slave Molly Ammond's Christmas Memories
Ex Alabama Slave Molly Ammond:"Us was treated fine. Our folks was quality. We had plenty somp'n t'eat, but dem slaves hadda work powerful hard though. Atter dey come home fum de fields dey was so tired...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Mary Jeffreys Bethell 1861-1862...
Diary of Mary Jeffreys Bethell, January 1st 1861 - Dec. 1865:Mary Jeffreys Bethell, born in 1821, was the daughter of Phereba Hinton Jeffreys and farmer and Methodist preacher George Washington...
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Ex-Slave Eda Rains' Christmas Memories
Eda Rains was born a slave in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1853. In 1860 Eda, her brothers and mother, were bought by a Mr. Carter and brought to Texas:"Now, I mus' tell you all 'bout Christmas. Our...
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Mary Chestnut's A Diary From Dixie:Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, 1823-1886, was born in Stateburg, South Carolina, in the High Hills of Santee, to Mary Boykin and her husband, Stephen Decatur Miller. Her...
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Ex-Slave Alice Houston's Christmas Memories
Alice Houston was born October 22, 1859. She was a slave of Judge Jim Watkins on his small plantation in Hays County, near San Marcos, Texas and served as house girl to his wife, Mrs. Lillie Watkins...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Anita Dwyers Withers in Virginia
DIARY OF ANITA DWYER WITHERS 1860-1865A devout Roman Catholic, Anita Dwyer Withers, wife of a United States and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Texas, and briefly in...
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Ex-Slave Angie Garrett's Christmas Memories
Angie Garrett was a slave on a boat owned by Capt Mooring running between Mobile, Alabama, and Aberdeen, Mississippi. On land, they lived in Dekalb:"Us didn't git no presents at Christmas. Sometimes us...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of Sarah Morgan Dawson 1862 in...
A Confederate Girl's Diary: Sarah Morgan DawsonBorn into a wealthy New Orleans family, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909, was the daughter of an influential judge who moved his family to Baton Rouge when Sarah...
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Ex-Slave Hannah Crasson's Christmas Memories
Hannah Crasson was born a slave on John William Walton's plantation 4 miles from Garner and 13 miles from Raleigh, in Wake County, North Carolina:"Dey gave us Christmas and other holidays. Den dey, de...
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Confederate Civil War Christmas Memories of in Union, South Carolina
Christmas During the Civil War in South CarolinaAmerican Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940.Mrs. Ida Baker, E. Main St., Union, S.C. Interviewer: Caldwell Sims,...
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