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 individuals were gathered across seventeen states, preserving the last generation's memories before they vanished. These firsthand accounts offer invaluable glimpses into American slavery, though historians debate how the predominantly white interviewers may have shaped the stories. The collection contains over 10,000 pages of narratives, photographs, and audio recordings. (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 VI, Kansas Narratives
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection
Credits Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from
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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 -- United States -- Biography
Subject Slave narratives
Subject Slavery -- Kansas
Category Text
EBook-No. 11485
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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