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 compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. More than 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals were documented across seventeen states, preserving firsthand accounts that would otherwise have been lost. The collection sparked debate among historians about bias, as primarily white interviewers conducted the interviews during the Jim Crow era. These narratives
offer crucial insights into slavery's lived reality and continue shaping contemporary discussions about race and citizenship in America. (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 XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 |
| 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: 90.6 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Texas -- Biography |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Texas |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Texas -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Texas |
| Subject | African Americans -- Texas -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35380 |
| Release Date | Feb 23, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1364 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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