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 compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The work contains over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals, preserving their memories before this generation disappeared. Conducted primarily by white interviewers across seventeen states, the collection sparked lasting debate about racial bias and authenticity. These narratives offer invaluable glimpses into slavery's reality while reflecting the complex power dynamics of Depression-era America. (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 XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection
Credits Produced by Janet Blenkinship and The Online Distributed
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 91.6 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)
Subject African Americans -- Biography
Subject Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions
Subject Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography
Subject Slavery -- South Carolina
Subject African Americans -- Folklore
Category Text
EBook-No. 21508
Release Date
Most Recently Updated May 18, 2007
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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