Letter to Ziba B. Oakes, February 26, 1855

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F. Sumter, an enslaver in Sumterville, South Carolina, wrote this letter to Ziba B. Oakes, a slaver from Charleston, South Carolina. Students should note the author’s slave related diction. This text is for 6th-12th grade students.

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