Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…
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"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from..." is a collection compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states created more than 10,000 typed pages of firsthand accounts. These voices from the last generation to experience slavery directly captured memories that would have otherwise vanished. However, the predominantly white interviewers sparked debate about bias and how
race relations shaped what was recorded and revealed during these Depression-era conversations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | United States. Work Projects Administration |
|---|---|
| Title | Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Jeannie Howse, Andrea Ball, Terry Gilliland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Produced from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Indiana |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Indiana -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Indiana -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Indiana |
| Subject | African Americans -- Indiana -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 13579 |
| Release Date | Oct 2, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1166 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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