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Found Poetry Using Slave Stories

Start here: Slavery and the Making of America from PBS

*From this main page, you can watch videos, listen to audio clips and read transcribed interviews with former slaves.

*Use the Explore by Subject pull down menu to choose an area of interest and then click on Personal Narratives or Original Docs to obtain primary sources for that specific topic.
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Additional primary source websites:
The Slaves' Story - Jefferson's Blood - Frontline PBS
Voices From the Days of Slavery - American Memory from the Library of Congress
Slavery Links from the Constitutional Rights Foundation (Click on the headings with Primary Sources indicated)
Excerpts from Slave Narratives 1
Excerpts from Slave Narratives 2
African American Voices: A Documentary Reader
Narrative of Walter Calloway
Slave Narratives

General Information (non-primary source), many with photos:
Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
First African Slaves in the New World
Tuskegee Airmen

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