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H. C. Vaughn Diary and Photographs

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Vaughn, H. C

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This series of pages, written January 28, 1935, is more of a short autobiography than a diary. Vaughn was born in Monroe County and was sold as a slave to Steve Scoby in 1863. He escaped in the fall of 1864 and found refuge with a General Smart in Mexico, Mo. After the emancipation, he went to school for a short while, then was hired out until he became converted into the religious faith, after which time he assisted the minister under whom he was converted. He eventually attended the Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City, where he completed the Normal Course and received a state certificate. For the rest of his life, he was both educator and preacher, normally holding both positions at the same time, in various Missouri locations, including Boonville, Columbia and Moberly.
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Keywords

  1. Biography
  2. Emancipation
  3. Escape
  4. Jefferson City, Missouri
  5. Mexico, Missouri
  6. Moberly, Missouri
  7. Religion
  8. School
  9. Slaver
  10. Slavery
  11. Slaves
  12. Teaching
  13. United States
  14. Vaughn, Finetta
  15. Vaughn, Henry Clay

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