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 memories before this generation disappeared. The collection contains more than 10,000 pages of testimonies, photographs, and audio recordings. However, the predominantly white interviewers raised questions about bias and whether interviewees modified their stories
under Jim Crow conditions, making these narratives both invaluable historical documents and contested spaces of memory. (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 VII, Kentucky Narratives |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Kentucky |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Kentucky -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Kentucky -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Kentucky |
| Subject | African Americans -- Kentucky -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11920 |
| Release Date | Apr 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 739 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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