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. This remarkable archive preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, capturing their firsthand accounts before their generation disappeared. The collection sparked controversy as primarily white interviewers documented these stories during the Jim Crow era, raising questions about bias and what remained unspoken. These
voices offer an irreplaceable window into American slavery and its complex legacy. (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 XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Miranda van de Heijning 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: 89.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Texas -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Texas -- Biography |
| Subject | African Americans -- Texas -- Interviews |
| Subject | African Americans -- Texas -- History -- Sources |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 30967 |
| Release Date | Jan 14, 2010 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1120 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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