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Antebellum Slavery


Fanny Kemble and Pierce Butler

Conditions of Antebellum Slavery

"Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race"

Letter from Henry Tayloe on the domestic slave trade

E. S. Abdy Description of a Washington, D.C., Slave Pen

George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery

A Slave Experience of Being Sold South

Butler Plantation Slave

The Weeping Time

Letters to R. C. Ballard Regarding Slave Woman Abuse

H. E. Hayward and Slave Nurse Louisa

"On the Management of the Butler Estate"

Story date: 1828

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Slave Quarters on St. Georges Island

"Family Group ('The Hidden Witness')"

James Henry Hammond Advocates Slavery

Story date: 1858

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"What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation"

Story date: 1863

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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation

Butler Mansion