History Eyewitness
3 total works
The author, a wealthy Bostonian with a deep interest in Native American culture, provides a first-person account of his experiences living with a band of Oglala Sioux while they traveled the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1847.
Exquemelin and the Pirates Hb
by Jane Shuter and Alexander Olivier Exquemelin
Published 1 January 1995
Provides a first person account of the author's experiences both as a slave on tobacco and cotton plantations and as a runaway with intermittent periods of freedom during the late 1700's and early 1800's.