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 histories 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 memories before that generation disappeared. However, because predominantly white interviewers conducted these interviews during the Jim Crow era, historians debate whether the accounts were shaped by racism and power dynamics, making the collection both invaluable and contested as historical evidence. (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 IV, Georgia 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
Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by the
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 87.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)
Subject Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Biography
Subject Slave narratives -- Georgia
Subject Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Social conditions
Subject Slavery -- Georgia
Subject African Americans -- Georgia -- Biography
Category Text
eBook-No. 22166
Release Date
Last Update Jan 2, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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