Rebellious History
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Oct 01 2020 at 11:00 AM GMT
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- Historians encounter interesting people there whose lives appear in mere snippets, spurring curiosity that can never be entirely satiated.
- Scholars of American slavery are particularly familiar with this phenomenon.
- The people who could give the best account of day-to-day life before emancipation were the people most directly affected by the institution: the enslaved.
- Yet the nature of slavery was such that these individuals were, with few exceptions, silenced.
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- Published Oct 1, 2020 11:00 AM GMT