| LC control no. | n 87840485 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-approximately 1889 |
| Variant(s) | Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers, 1853-approximately 1889 Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-1889? |
| Biography/History note | Octavia V. Rogers Albert was a slave. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1853-12-24 |
| Death date | 1890~ |
| Place of birth | Oglethorpe (Ga.) |
| Affiliation | Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Novelists Biographers |
| Found in | The house of bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and other slaves, 1988: CIP t.p. (Octavia V. Rogers Albert) LC data base, 8/13/87 (hdg.: Albert, Octavia Victoria (Rogers), 1853-1889?; usage: Octavia V. Rogers Albert) African American National Biography, accessed October 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Albert, Octavia Victoria Rogers; slave, biographer, civil rights activist, fiction writer; born 24 December 1853 in Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States; most of the little we know of her life comes from The House of Bondage (1890), the book that made her famous; taught in Montezuma, Georgia (1873); wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister, New Orleans (1877); attended lectures and receptions, participated in the religious reform efforts; the scope of her project covered rural and urban slavery using oral testimonies which made it unique and different from other studies of the period; died c.1890) |
| Associated language | eng |
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