The History of Slavery, Part 5: The Road to Abolition
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The Days Right During Emancipation
Historian Heather Williams has unearthed a few reunions we can point to. Barbara Glenn was sold at age eight from his mother and father in North Carolina, and spent the rest of his childhood in Kentucky. The expectation of so many slaves was that their families would be annihilated; it became important to be able to forget. Booker T. Washington talks about what it was like for slaves on the plantation: What it was like when they had no idea where to go.
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