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Freeborn Slave: Diary of a Black Man in the South
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Today, Shelley shares an interview with Birmingham resident Karen Ameen.
The interview took place in 1996, shortly after Ms. Ameen published the book Freeborn Slave, Diary of a Black Man in the South.
The book is a collection of memoirs dictated by her great-grandfather, Jasper Rastus Nall, an individual who was born at the end of the Civil War.
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