Stories of former San Antonio slaves live on in Library of Congress collection
Narratives captured an overlooked swath of America, professor says
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The last generation of slaves had their stories chronicled in a narrative collection now archived in the Library of Congress. (KSAT)
SAN ANTONIO – William Branch was 11 when Union soldiers arrived to the Virginia plantation he was living in to tell him he was now free. James Green, who was kidnapped and sold back into slavery after he was emancipated, only learned his age when he was freed again at age 25. Martin Jackson was fighting the Union with his master when he realized the South would soon surrender.