Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…
"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection of oral histories compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals were documented across seventeen states, preserving their memories before the last generation disappeared. The collection sparked controversy due to predominantly white interviewers potentially influencing accounts during the Jim Crow era. These narratives offer crucial insights into enslaved
life while raising complex questions about historical documentation, racial power dynamics, and whose voices truly emerge from the archive. (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 VIII, Maryland Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
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Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography |
| Subject | Slavery -- Maryland |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Maryland |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Social conditions |
| Subject | African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 11552 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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