Periodical Index Detail
Trend & Tradition
| Title | A Fourth of July Barbecue |
| Issue | Volume 03, Number 03 (T&T, Summer 2018) |
| Description | Barbecues were a tradition at many Virginia plantations and enslaved people looked forward to them despite the ironies of celebrating a holiday that brought no freedom for African Americans. Louis Hughes, a slave who finally found freedom near the end of the Civil War, described one such event in this excerpt from his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom. |
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| Pages | 88 |