Voices from the Days of Slavery
The Library of Congress has launched Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories where all known recordings of former slaves in the LOC’s American Folklife Center are available to listen to on the web. Don’t miss the recording of Fountain Hughes. His grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson and he remembers when the Yankees come along and took all the good horses and took all the, throwed all the meat and flour and sugar and stuff out in the river and let it go down the river. (read Hughes’s transcript)
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