Merely that their testimony is the best evidence we have of their feelings  
about this lives in slavery vis-a-vis their lives at the time they were  
interviewed.  They don't speak for everyone, but they do speak for  themselves.
 
I love the way historians like to take such first hand accounts and  discount 
the veracity of the interviewee to meet their intellectual and academic  
point of view.
 
J South



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