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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Century of Negro Migration,
In treating this movement of the
Negroes, the writer does not presume
to say the last word on the subject.
The exodus of the Negroes from the
South has just begun.
Clotelle or the Colored Heroine,
Impassioned and voluptuous daughters
of the two races, the unlawful
product of the crime of human
bondage.
Fugitive Blacksmith, Events
in the History of James W. C.
Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian
Church, New York, Formerly a slave
in the State of Maryland.
Great Riots of New York
1712-1873, Including a Full and
Complete Account of the Four Days'
Draft Riot of 1863
History of Liberia, There
are but few more interesting spots
in Africa than the little corner of
the west coast occupied by the
Republic of Liberia.
Narrative of Lundsford Lane,
Embracing an account of his early
life, the redemption by purchase of
himself and family from slavery
Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18,
The authorship of the Bill is
generally ascribed to James M.
Mason, Senator from Virginia. Before
proceeding to the principal object
of this tract, it is proper to give
a synopsis of the Act itself.
History of Slave Narratives,
This collection of slave narratives
had its beginning in the second year
of the former Federal Writers'
Project, 1936, when several state
Writers' Projects, notably those of
Florida, Georgia, and South
Carolina, recorded interviews with
ex-slaves residing in those states.
