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  • Text: characteristics in clothing that were brought to the Caribbean by African slaves. And so I basically analyzed slave clothing, and I try to figure out why they dress the way they did and the policy surrounding clothing during the days of slavery. and I got involved
Steeve Buckridge audio interview and transcription

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  • Text: keep slaves. And the big Mason Lodge, one of the biggest Mason Lodges in the country has all these underground secret passages. You can tour them and they say it’s where they keep slaves running away. But they would also have the slave hunter stay
Christian Vannier audio interview and transcript

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  • Text: it that was involuntary. My father's parents were slaves. And the...matralinical line was often ... you know... abused by the masters and bore children. Ya know because no matter if you want to go in to the Sally Hemmings sort of mentality and think of that as being
Judith Claytor audio interview and transcript

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  • Text: against your government and become president of your government is just something that is amazing to me. , a person like a Malcolm X, who takes the “X” as his last name because he has a “slave name”, you know, he has a “name of his master”, as you want
Arlene Akker audio interview and transcript

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  • Text: some slaves. They really don’t tell you a lot in high school about civil rights movements and all that slavery and expeditions and all that . So, he taught me and he was like , I’m sorry, well he never said I’m sorry I take that back. (laughter) Well, I
Esiloza Omoh audio interview and transcript
Terrence is African American and Atheist. He discusses growing up in a neighborhood that is predominately White, Christian.
Terrence Harris audio interview and transcript

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  • Text: discriminated. Ya know I have never felt that, ya know. Some of ‘em may say that they need to be ‘paid back’ for slavery after all this time, I never can say that I’ve been a slave so I don’t know their experiences so I don’t have a shared experience
Fabiola Jimenez audio interview and transcript

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  • Text: she I mean she worked for a white lady for a while if I’m not mistaken, like cleaning her house and stuff like that. So it was not like slave labor or anything like that it was definitely like they were good friends and she just helped her out like
Christina McAllister audio interview and transcript