Octavia V. Rogers Albert (Dec 24, 1853 - Aug 18, 1889). Author, biographer. She documented enslavement in the U.S. through a collection of interviews with formerly enslaved people in her book ‘The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves’, which was posthumously published in 1890. #History
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