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The house was moved to the university to be used as a museum to help tell the story of plantation life, including the inhumanity and lack of freedom of the enslaved people. There is a room in the house that is dedicated to telling
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for accuracy and published a new version of the book in the 1960s. As part of the research, she found the house that
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406:"Life in Avoyelles - LSU-A restoring Epps House"
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268:"12 Years a Slave: Narrative, History and Film"
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1182:List of American slave traders
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1532:Compensated emancipation
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