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Cotton plantation

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“It’s going to get grim really fast,” warned Walter Johnson, Harvard’s Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African-American studies, early in his talk at Radcliffe. Using the words of former slaves and slaveholders, Johnson painted a harsh and violent picture of the pre-Civil War Mississippi Valley region.

The landscape of slavery

Unsettling accounts of those in Southern bondage echo across time

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DateDecember 17, 2010March 6, 2019