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

But Pence can offer a firsthand account of at least some one-on-one conversations with Trump.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 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

Elliot, meanwhile, flipped through page after page of the firsthand account, ignoring me completely.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin