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Christine Fischer replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)'

Theme: Punshiment Were slaves often punished? Would they have to do more work? Were they beaten by their masters? Summarizing: The three sources that I read under the topic of punishment were letters from the overseer in AL, Charles Lewellyn, to th…

September 14

Christine Fischer replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with documents - Contextualizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity II)'

Summary of Doc Edward's interview: This interview, from 1937, is a very personal account of what this man, Doc Edwards, experienced as a slave on the Cameron plantation in the later 1850's. He was a house servant that did a lot of the cooking and c…

September 14

Christine Fischer replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with documents - Summarizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity I)'

This letter is written to Duncan Cameron from his son, Paul Cameron. Paul is writing his father to inform him of the successful delivery of slaves to Greensboro, Alabama (from NC). All but one, Edmund, are strong and healthy. Paul has trouble conver…

September 13

Christine Fischer is now a member of Plantation Letters

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September 10