Octavia V. Rogers Albert, an African American author and former enslaved woman, was born. She is best known for her influential book The House of Bondage, published posthumously in 1890. The work collects firsthand narratives from formerly enslaved people in Louisiana, offering a powerful testimony of the horrors of slavery and the resilience of Black Americans during Reconstruction.
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