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 compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The work preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, capturing their life histories before their generation disappeared. These firsthand accounts offer unprecedented testimony about slavery, though historians debate how white interviewers' presence may have shaped the narratives. The collection remains a contested but
invaluable window into American slavery and its lasting impact on national identity. (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 XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPA_Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by 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: 91.2 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | African Americans -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography |
| Subject | Slavery -- South Carolina |
| Subject | African Americans -- Folklore |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 28170 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-28170-4 |
| Release Date | Feb 24, 2009 |
| Last Update | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1992 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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