Released on: 24, November 2006
, Author: Rosemary McKittrick
, Audience: Internet related
November 24, 2006--They were whipped for spilling coffee into asaucer as they served dinner. They were whipped for learning to read. They werewhipped for praying out loud.
Well into their 80Â's dozens of former black slaves relived and retold their storiesin the 1930s oral history  Bullwhip Days, The Slaves Remember. Edited by JamesMellon, the testimonies were collected by the Federal Writers' Project of the WorksProgress Administration.
 I have heard a heap of people say they wouldn't take the treatment what the slavestook, said one slave,  but they woulda took it or death. If they had been there,they woulda took the very same treatment.''
'The master, he says we is all free, but dat it don't mean we is white, and it don'tmean we is equal, said another slave.
Freedom for blacks was eventually legislated in America but equal rights were neverguaranteed.
The face of slavery not only showed up in oral testimonies like  Bullwhip Days butalso in early photography. Through images of black tradesmen, black Civil Warsoldiers, slaves fleeing slavery and plantation workers, the powerful face ofbondage was documented.
Early photography, because it was expensive and difficult was rarely informal. There was usually a reason for a photograph. With the new glass-plate and albumenprint process of the mid-1850Â's mass-production became doable.
Even so, early black photography from the 1840Â's through the 1870Â's is rare. Whenphotos are found, theyÂ're often staged and show the biases of the photographer or printmaker.
The powerful images speak for themselves. ItÂ's a priceless as well as embarrassinglegacy for blacks and whites.
On Aug. 26, Early American History Auctions, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., featured aselection of early black photography and ephemera in its mail bid and internetauction of autographs, coins, currency and Americana.
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