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Life in the Slave Quarters

This photo of a slave couple in front of their home in Georgia, is a rare documentation of slaves' living conditions...
This page was created for the sole purposes of educating both the public, and students of American Public Life and American Rhetoric, alike. I desire that you take away from this site, a solid knowledge of what life was like for the American slave, in hopes that their story is told as accurately, and as passionately as the language of their plight will allow.
Jack and Abby Landlord, a slave couple, who at the time of this photograph from the 1860's were 110 and 100 years old respectively...
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