Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…
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"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves" is a collection compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states preserved more than 10,000 pages of firsthand accounts. While invaluable for documenting experiences that would otherwise have been lost, historians debate the collection's limitations, as primarily white interviewers may have influenced how subjects
shared their stories during the Jim Crow era. (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. Administrative Files Selected Records Bearing on the History of the Slave Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Andrea Ball and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E740: History: America: Twentieth century |
| Subject | Federal Writers' Project. Slave narratives |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 13847 |
| Release Date | Oct 25, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 528 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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