{"type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "title": "A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it", "subjects": ["Slaves", "Fiction", "Slavery", "Slave trade", "History"], "subject_places": ["Virginia", "Richmond", "Newbern (Va.)"], "subject_times": ["19th century"], "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL18319A"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "A fictionalized slave narrative written in African American dialect, it is a story of \"Aunt Rachel,\" a servant, aged about sixty, who seemed to be very happy. When asked how she could have lived so long with no trouble, she began a brief account of her life. Her mother was born a slave in Maryland, and she herself was raised in Virginia where she married and had seven children. Her mistress decided to sell the slaves and they were sent to a slave market in Richmond where \"Aunt Rachel\" was separated from her husband and children. She became a slave in Newbern, Virginia where she was the cook until the Civil War and the Union soldiers invaded the town. She became a cook for the soldiers until her son, Henry, found her as he had promised before he was sold and separated from her."}, "key": "/works/OL39023038W", "latest_revision": 1, "revision": 1, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-11T11:36:09.870260"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-11T11:36:09.870260"}}