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. This massive effort documented over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their firsthand accounts before their generation disappeared. The collection sparked debate among historians about bias, as white interviewers conducted most interviews during Jim Crow era. These testimonies offer profound insights into slavery's
reality and continue influencing historical research and contemporary movements. (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 I, Alabama Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits | Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 88.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Alabama |
| Subject | Slavery -- Alabama |
| Subject | African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Social conditions |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 36020 |
| Release Date | May 2, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2179 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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