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 undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938. The project documented over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their life histories before the last generation born into slavery disappeared. However, the collection sparked controversy: primarily white interviewers conducted the interviews during Jim Crow, raising questions about whether interviewees could speak freely
or had to modify their accounts for safety and survival. (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 II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Jeannie Howse, Andrea Ball, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 93.5 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Arkansas |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Arkansas |
| Subject | African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 13700 |
| Release Date | Oct 11, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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