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 of oral histories gathered between 1936 and 1938. Created by the Federal Writers' Project, this massive archive documents over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people across seventeen states. The collection preserves firsthand accounts from the last generation who experienced slavery directly. However, because mostly white interviewers conducted these interviews during the Jim Crow era, historians debate how
the power dynamics and racial tensions of the 1930s shaped these 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 X, Missouri 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: 90.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Missouri -- Biography |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Missouri |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Missouri -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Missouri |
| Subject | African Americans -- Missouri -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35379 |
| Release Date | Feb 23, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1171 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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