firsthand account
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A firsthand account by an escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist and orator, this memoir reframed slavery as coerced labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
Graves did not observe the event himself but said a witness came to his organization, Americans for Safe Aerospace, with a firsthand account and evidence including police blotters and other documentation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
By the time that Seabrook published his "firsthand account of voodoo in Haiti," the othering of Haiti, and its Afrocentric vodou religion in particular, had been long underway.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2023
Cohen’s testimony could illuminate that sequence of events, providing prosecutors the firsthand account they would need to make a case against Trump.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Edward was never surrounded by crowds of curious by-standers eager for his firsthand account.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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