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Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery

Far More Terrible for Women contains first-hand accounts of what life was like for women in slavery. These accounts are drawn from interviews conducted in the 1930s and stored in the Library of Congress.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
historical fiction
Themes
feminismafrican american
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 219 pages

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