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. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people produced more than 10,000 typed pages, capturing the last generation's memories before they were lost forever. Conducted primarily by white interviewers during the Great Depression, these narratives present both invaluable firsthand accounts and complex questions about how power, race, and circumstance shaped the stories people felt safe to tell. (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 1
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection
Credits Produced by PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided
by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 94.3 (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. 11255
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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