Letter to Ziba B. Oakes, February 1, 1855

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Jesse King, an enslaver in Milledgeville, Aiken County, South Carolina, wrote this letter to Ziba B. Oakes, a slaver in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1855. Students should pay attention to the author’s diction. This text is for 6th-12th grade students.

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