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Understanding of our past egging into primary sources and listening to the voices of those not usually heard. Todays guest author, Stephanie Jones rogers has done this in her new book, they were her property, white women as slaveowners in the american south. Jones rogers uses an impressive assortment to piece together the stories of the slaveholders and the enslaved with the oral histories of formally enslaved people, news paper advertisements, sales records Court Documents and more. Two weeks ago we displayed the d. C. Emancipation act ended slavery in the district of colombian 1862. Hey among the records generated as a result of this you will find several references to women owners. To come up for example, sot compensation for their freed slaves, one claiming one slave was a gift from her sister and worth 1500. They were her property has received a number of highly favora ....