Norman R. Yetman
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
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2002
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Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
11 editions
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1970
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Majority and Minority: The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in American Life
6 editions
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1981
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Life under the "peculiar institution";: Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection
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1970
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Sociology 337 Minorities: Majority & Minority
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Voices from Slavery
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Sociology: Experiencing Changing Societies
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1979
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Sociology : Experiencing Changing Societies, Economy Version, Examination Copy
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1996
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“and they starts biddin’ on me. And when they cried off and this Mr. Crosby come up to get me, I just pulled out my papers and helt ’em up high and when he sees ’em he say, “Let me see them.” But I says, “You just look at it up here.” He squints up and say, “This gal am free and has papers.” And tells me he a legislature man and takes me and lets me stay with his slaves. He is a good man.”
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
“I didn’t have no sure ’nough weddin’. Me and Julie just jumped over de broom in front of Marster and us was married. Dat was all dere was to it. Dat was de way most of de slave folks got married dem days. Us knowed better dan to ask de gal when us wanted to get married. Us just told our Marster and he done de askin’. Den, if it was all right with de gal, Marster called all de”
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
“Ole Massa always see that we get plenty to eat. O’ course it was no fancy rations. Just corn bread, milk, fat meat, and ’lasses, but the Lord knows that was lots more than other poor niggers got. Some of them had such bad masters. Us poor niggers never allowed to learn anything. All the readin’ they ever hear was when they was carried through the big Bible. The massa say that keep the slaves in they places.”
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
― When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
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