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  Slavery Artifacts: Metal Folding Cup

  A note from his grandaunt accompanies the folding cup brought in by Mr. Taylor. This is his great-grandmother’s folding cup that she used in the field while enslaved in Mississippi. This artifact would have been essential to his great-grandmother, who would not have been allowed to share the same utensils as her slavemaster, and needed to drink while at work in the fields all day.

  For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

  Tags Mississippi, North Omaha History Harvest 2011, Slave, slavery, utencil, Warren Taylor Collection
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  Slavery Artifacts: Penny

  Mr. Taylor brought in this penny to the History Harvest to share with us, accompanied by a note from his grandaunt. This penny is a 'braided hair coronet'-style penny, dated 1840, and Mr. Taylor informed us that his great-great-grandmother held on to this penny until she passed away. He said it was a highly treasured object for his great-great-grandmother, as slaves were not allowed to have money of their own.

  For interviews and oral histories of this and other items please visit the History Harvest YouTube Channel.

  Tags currency, Mississippi, North Omaha History Harvest 2011, Penny, Russel Taylor, Slave, slavery, Warren Taylor Collection