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Canonical name: Blassingame, John W.
Legal name: Blassingame, John Wesley
Birthdate: 1940-03-23
Date of death: 2000-02-13
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Covington, Georgia, USA
Places of residence: Covington, Georgia, USA
Washington, DC, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Education: Fort Valley State College (BA | 1960)
Howard University (MA | 1961)
Yale University (MPhil | 1968)
Yale University (PhD | 1971)
Occupations: historian
scholar of African-American studies
university professor
Relationships: Raboteau, Albert J. (student)
Organizations: Yale University
Organization of American Historians
Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History
Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Southern Historical Association
Phi Alpha Theta (show all 7)
American Historical Association

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Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches,… by John W. Blassingame

Between the Slave Testimony readers will find he largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. In them, the slaves of Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, Henry Clay, and others speak of themselves about their culture, plantation life, the adequacy of their food, clothing, an shelter, the sexual exploitation of black women, an the psychological response to bondage.