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- The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
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James Martin, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, 1972
James Martin, born enslaved on a Virginia plantation in 1847, describes witnessing a slave auction as a child. Interviewed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, his testimony was published in 1972 in George P. Rawick's edited WPA-narrative collection.
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