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Aunt Jonas. She is Drualla Jones, aged ninety-four, and was the slave Thomas Ferrell. She and two others were the only old slaves I found who were not loyal to their owners. During the war she tried to burn her master's house

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Matthews, Essie Collins

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Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Women
  2. African Americans
  3. Rocking Chairs
  4. Slaver
  5. Slaves
  6. Social Conditions
  7. United States
  8. Women

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