Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…
"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 documented across seventeen states, preserving their life stories before that generation disappeared. The collection sparked controversy, as white interviewers conducted most interviews during Jim Crow, raising questions about bias and how racial dynamics shaped the narratives. Despite these concerns,
the collection remains a vital historical resource containing over 10,000 pages of testimonies. (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 IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection |
| Credits |
Produced by Robert Fry 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) HTML version produced by Jeannie Howse. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 87.8 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Biography |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Georgia |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Georgia |
| Subject | African Americans -- Georgia -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 18485 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jul 2, 2006 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1237 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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