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…" is a collection undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938. The project documented over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people across seventeen states, preserving more than 10,000 pages of their life stories. While these narratives offer invaluable firsthand accounts, historians have debated their reliability, as predominantly white interviewers conducted the interviews during the Jim Crow era, potentially
influencing how subjects shared 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 1 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPA_Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Marcia Brooks, 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: 90.6 (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. | 22976 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-22976-8 |
| Release Date | Oct 12, 2007 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3602 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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