DOING AS THEY CAN: slave life in the american south
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Produced by American Social History Project,
The City University of New York
30 minutes
Study Guide Available
Part of the Who Built America? series, this video features a fugitive woman slave describing life, work, and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a North Carolina cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s.
The City University of New York
30 minutes
Study Guide Available
Part of the Who Built America? series, this video features a fugitive woman slave describing life, work, and day-to-day resistance to slavery on a North Carolina cotton plantation during the 1840s and 1850s.
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American Studies American History African-American Studies World History Women's Studies Labor Studies
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