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Fascinating Look Back At The Voices And Faces Behind The Last Generation Of Slaves


Posted on Apr 02, 2012 @ 04:00PM - 6 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

A collection of first-person narratives is revealing yet more details from a very shameful side of American history, and RadarOnline.com has amazing photos from the era.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 is presented by the Work Progress Administration at the Library of Congress and includes interviews with the oldest surviving American slaves, some of whom were in their 80s and 90s, and one woman who claimed to be 121.

PHOTOS: A Glimpse Back At The Last Living American Slaves

“We were never allowed to go to town and it was not until after I ran away that I knew that they sold anything but slaves, tobacco, and whiskey,” revealed former slave, John W. Fields.

“Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then? An offender guilty of this crime was subjected to very harsh punishment.”

A collection of first-person narratives is revealing yet more details from a very shameful side of American history, and RadarOnline.com has amazing photos from the era.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 is presented by the Work Progress Administration at the Library of Congress and includes interviews with the oldest surviving American slaves, some of whom were in their 80s and 90s, and one woman who claimed to be 121.

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Bill O'Reilly's Book About Lincoln Assassination Banned Because Of 'Inaccuracies' And 'Mistakes'


Posted on Nov 13, 2011 @ 12:10PM - 3 comments

By Radar Staff

Bill O'Reilly's book about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has been banned from the store at Ford's Theatre, the very place the President was killed!

Killing Lincoln is on several best seller lists but a number of historians have had a field day with the Fox News host's account of Lincoln's death, co-written by Marty Dugard.

Asks historian Edward Steers Jr.: “If the authors made mistakes in names, places, and events, what else did they get wrong? How can the reader rely on anything that appears in Killing Lincoln?” reports The Washington Post.

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Some of the errors are minor. The book says Lincoln was attending the eighth performance of the play Our American Cousin when he was shot. It was the ninth. The farm of Samuel Mudd, the doctor who was convicted of conspiring in the assassination, was 217 acres, not 500 acres as the book claims. And Killing Lincoln has scenes with Lincoln in the Oval Office, which didn't even exist until 44 years after Lincoln's 1865 murder.

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