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 preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals, totaling more than 10,000 typed pages. These testimonies capture the final generation's memories of slavery before emancipation. However, the collection remains controversial—primarily white interviewers documented these stories during Jim Crow America, raising questions about bias and whether
interviewees could speak freely about their experiences. (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 XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Diane Monico 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: 90.9 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Biography |
| Subject | Slavery -- North Carolina |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- North Carolina |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Social conditions |
| Subject | African Americans -- North Carolina -- Biography |
| Subject | North Carolina -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 31219 |
| Release Date | Feb 8, 2010 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 6, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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