Scholar Annette GordonReed discusses the challenges of using texts created by enslavers to understand the lives of enslaved people.
Key Concept 10: By knowing how to read and interpret the sources that tell the story of American slavery, we gain insight into some of what enslaving and enslaved Americans aspired to, created, thought and desired.

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