1860, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)

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1860, Unnamed, Labor (Agricultural)

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Enslaved children gathered blackberries, apples, hickory nuts, and chinquapin on Henry Hull's plantation.

Partial Transcript: "And the little niggers who picked blackberries and climbed the trees for red June apples, or gathered the brown hickory nuts, and the black eyed chinquepin."

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1860

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Enslaver

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