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    Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories -- audio recordings made of people who had experienced slavery first-hand. The recordings provide a unique opportunity to learn of the lives they led in their own voices.


  1. Fountain Hughes, circa 1952. Photograph courtesy of The Jeffersonian newspaper, Towson, Maryland..jpg

  2. Interview with Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949 (2)


    George Johnson, circa 1935. Library of Congress Manuscripts Division - Montgomery Family Papers. Photomechanical print




  3. Isom Moseley, October, 1939 Library of Congress Prints Photographs.jpg

  4. Interview with Virginia Ex-Slaves, Petersburg, Virginia, ca. 1937-1940 (1)


    Wallace Quarterman, 1935. Library of Congress.jpg