David Silkenat (@davidsilkenat.bsky.social)

If Trump wants to know "how bad Slavery was", he should read the words of those who suffered under the lash and at the auction block docsouth.unc.edu/neh/about.html

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About Docsouth Slave Narratives Collection "North American Slave Narratives" documents the individual and collective story of the Black struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is the goal of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to digitize all known extant narratives written by self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people and published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920, as well as many of the biographies of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people published in English before 1920. This collection was largely funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded the University Libraries a two-year grant and a one-year extension grant. Further funding was provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the University Libraries continues to fund further expansion of this collection. The extensive offerings within this collection are made possible through the collaboration of the more than seventy repositories throughout the country that loaned original editions or provided photocopies of rare narratives. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/about.html