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Freedmen

Family History

by Zora Neale Hurston,

By Zora Neale Hurston, from Barracoon, a previously unpublished ethnography based on interviews that she conducted with eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis in Alabama in 1927 and 1928. Lewis was then the…

The Missing

From advertisements taken out in African-American newspapers by former slaves searching for relatives. The earliest ads appeared in 1863. Villanova University and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia,…

Untitled

by Jourdon Anderson,

None such nowadays

by Harper’s Staff,

My fifth in Mammy

by William Ludwell Sheppard,

Uncle ‘Lebenteen’s conterbushun to de chu’ch

by Everett Stanton Beall,

A black settlement

by Martha McCulloch-Williams,

An interlude

by Grace Elizabeth King,

At the Hermitage

by E. Levi Brown,

Editor’s drawer

by Thomas Nelson Page,

P’laski’s tunaments

by Thomas Nelson Page,

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