
Escaping slavery in the American South
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Are You a Slaveholder?
You said earlier that one of your biggest interests about this, a project that you're working on, is that you can track individuals. And i wonder if you cound just share with us any particular adverts or stories of individual people that really stuck with you. Sure. So the the one that i always, i always use on the kenna conference scene is ais is an advertisement for an enslaved individual called and i tend to get my students even to to analyze this ad because in this we have admissions, for example, of profit being literate. Ar profit is suspected of changing our names and clothes, and a of escaping to certain locations. Only, i think one or two advertisements
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