Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in 
Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave 
remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell 
you what slavery is—'tis he who has endured." Here are the tales 
of those who have endured—a collection of the voices of the ex-
slaves themselves, recalling what their lives were like under 
slavery. Over one hundred former slaves describe their 
slavemasters, their work, runaway slaves, their recollections of the 
Civil War and, finally, the coming of freedom.

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RON TYLER is director of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, 
Texas. He is formerly professor of history at the University of Texas at 
Austin and director of the Texas State Historical Association. He is the 
author/editor of more than twenty books, including Prints of the West, 
Audubon's Great National Work, The Big Bend: A History of the Last 
Texas Frontier, Slave Narratives of Texas, and The Rodeo of John A. 
Stryker. He may be reached for interview at ron.tyler@cartermuseum.org


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