Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
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