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Click to enlargeWhen I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection

Norman R. Yetman
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Format: Book
Grade Level: 9 and Up (ages 14 and up)
ISBN: 0486420701
Page Count: 157
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 8 1/4
More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.

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