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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Ex-slave Nicey Pugh, about 85, Remembers 19C America
Nicey recalled, "...we jes had home made chothes an' shoes. De men wud shear de sheep and' us chilluns wud pick de burrs out ob de wool and den wash it an' spread it on de grass tuh dry, den we'd card...
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Women & Children on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Ex-slave Penny Thompson, about 86, Remembers 19C America
Penny declared, "We has de weddin's too, but no preacher or cer'mony. When a man sees a girl him likes and de girl am willin', dey says dey wants a weddin'. De womens cooks extra and dey gits do cedar...
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Ex-slave Ellen Payne, about 88, Remembers 19C America
Ellen said, "They was allus plenty to eat and one nigger didn't do nothin' but raise gardens. They hunted coon and possum and rabbits with dogs and the white folks kilt deer and big game like that. My...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Slaves - Food
Reuben G. Macy, a member of the Society of Friends, Hudson, N. Y., who resided in South Carolina. "The slaves had no food allowed them besides corn, excepting at Christmas, when they had beef.''Mr....
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Ex-slave Emma Crockett, about 80, Remembers 19C America
Emma said, "I wish I could read, but I wa'n't never l'arnt nothin''ceptin' atter Surrender Miss Sallie Cotes she showed us how to read printin', but I kain't read no writin."Slave Narratives: A Folk...
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Hon. T. T. Bouldin, a slave-holder, and member of Congress from Virginia, in a speech in Congress, Feb. 16, 1835. Mr. Bouldin said "he knew that many negroes had died from exposure to weather,'' and...
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Slaves & Rice
Slaves and Rice Cultivation in South CarolinaThe intricate steps involved in planting, cultivating, harvesting, and preparing rice required an immense labor force employing both men and women. Planters...
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Slaves Working
Mr. Eleazar Powel, Chippewa, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, who lived in Mississippi in 1836 and 1837. "The slaves had to cook and eat their breakfast and be in the field by daylight, and continue there...
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Early African American Evangelist Jarena Lee 1783-1857 - Off to Ohio
Jarena Lee was the first woman to preach under the auspices of the AME church. The child of free black parents, Lee was born in New Jersey in 1783, & worked as a servant in the home of a white...
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Ex-slave Laura Clark, about 87, Remembers 19C America
Larua remembered, "When I was 'bout six or seven years ole, I reckon hit 'twas, Mr. Garret...bought ten of us chillun in North Ca'lina and sent two white men, and one was Mr. Skinner, to fetch us back...
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Photo Archives - 19C African American Women
Slave of the Minor Family, Amherst, Virginia
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Pro-Slavery - Caroline Lee Whiting Heintz 1800-1856
Born in 1800 – Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz, American author, known for opposing the abolitionist movement & her rebuttal to Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the pro-slavery novel The Planter’s Northern...
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Ex-slave Mary Ann Patterson, Texas, Remembers 19C America
Mary Ann remembered, "I helped wid de work in de "loom room". I had to do "five cuts a day", but I was fast enough to make eight cuts a day. I made five cuts fo' de white folks and three fo'...
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Born a Slave - Clara Brown (1800-1885) Colorado
Clara Brown was born a slave in Virginia in 1800. At 9, she & her mother were sold into Kentucky. By 18, she married & then gave birth to 4 children. At 35, she was sold at auction &...
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Male & Female Slaves & the North Carolina Fishing Industry
In North Carolina & other coastal colonies, slaves served as fishermen & fish processors for their owners. Usually males fished, & females prepared the catch for market or export. Between...
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The role of slaves in the 18C & 19C American economy
Male & female Africans were captured & transported to the Western Hemisphere to work. Most European colonial economies in the Americas from the 16th - 19th century were dependent on enslaved...
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