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. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals were conducted across seventeen states, preserving their life stories before they were lost forever. These testimonies offer direct accounts of slavery from those who lived it, though the use of primarily white interviewers has sparked ongoing debate about bias and
authenticity in how these crucial voices were recorded and represented. (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 XVII, Virginia Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by René Anderson Benitz 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: 90.8 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 28973 |
| Release Date | May 26, 2009 |
| Last Update | Mar 15, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 679 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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