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1.
Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers' Project
Contributors:
Publisher:
Peter Lang 1990
Subjects:
Slaves--Louisiana--Biography
Slaves--Louisiana--Social Conditions
African Americans--Louisiana--Biography
African Americans--History--To 1863
Louisiana--Race Relations
Louisiana--Biography
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...andSpecial WriterRobert Tallant, the ex-slave interviews were used in variouschapters...Plantation.Thus, copies of the ex-slave narratives can be examined at either...Thirteen persons conducted the LWP ex-slave interviews. They wereMrs. Jeanne...
3.
From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited
Contributors:
Publisher:
Berghahn Books 2001
Subjects:
Slave Trade--Africa--Congresses
Slave Trade--America--Congresses
Slave Trade--Europe--Congresses
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...ofexisting rulers declined with the slave trade, while the rise of trade in palm-oilenabled men of slave origin to acquire wealth and bid for...personified above all by the famous ex-slave chief Jaja,who eventually seceded...
5.
Slave Trading in the Old South
Contributors:
Publisher:
Frederick Ungar Publishing 1959
Subjects:
Slave Trade--United States
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...distraction on the march as well as inthe slave-pens. There was rarely a numerous...watching demonstrated.Lewis Adams, an ex-slave and one of the founders ofthe Tuskegee...as ifthey were so many mules". An ex-Confederate captainsaid that it was...
6.
The African Slave Trade: Precolonial History, 1450-1850
Contributors:
Publisher:
Little Brown 1961
Subjects:
Slave Trade--Africa, West--History
Slave Trade--Africa, Eastern--History
Africa, West--History--To 1884
Africa, Eastern--History
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...truncated form.Thus a study of the ex-slave communities of the New Worldcan still...happened duringthe brief and bloody Arab slave trade from Zanzibar in the nineU...recalls the narrative of aWest African ex-slave who wrote his memoirs in 1831...
7.
Black Mother: The Years of the African Slave Trade
Contributors:
Publisher:
Little, Brown 1961
Subjects:
Slave Trade--Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)--History
Guinea (Region)--History
Africa, East--History
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...truncated form.Thus a study of the ex-slave communities of the New Worldcan still...happened duringthe brief and bloody Arab slave trade from Zanzibar in the nineU...recalls the narrative of aWest African ex-slave who wrote his memoirs in 1831...
8.
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Contributors:
Publisher:
Harvard University Press 1999
Subjects:
Slaves--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social Conditions--19th Century
Slave Trade--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th Century
African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social Conditions--19th Century
Slaveholders--Louisiana--New Orleans--History--19th Century
New Orleans (La.)--Race Relations
New Orleans (La.)--Social Conditions--19th Century
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...slaveholdersan opportunity to extend the slave market in time and space, it also...slaveholder'sdelicate palate or a slave's subtle strategy that undid the...woman who soon,in the words of the ex-slave's amanuensis, [got tired of Harriet...
9.
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade
Contributors:
Publisher:
New York University Press 2007
Subjects:
Slave Trade--America--History--19th Century
Slavery--United States--History--19th Century
Slavery--Brazil--History--19th Century
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...April 1856, in Ibid., Ex.Doc. 7, African Slave Trade. Message fromthe...5January 1857, in Ibid., Ex. Doc. 7.46. William...3October 1856, in Ibid., Ex. Doc. 7. Insame document...00ADcan flag to cover slave trading transactions...
10.
The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850-1860
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press 1970
Subjects:
Fugitive Slaves--United States
United States. Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
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...for public supportof Fugitive Slave Law in Boston,150Fishback...71Fuess, Claude, 104Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, 94;background...on, 33; state magistrates ex-cluded from enforcement of, 173Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, passageof in Senate...
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