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 of oral histories compiled between 1936 and 1938. Created by the Federal Writers' Project, it preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states. These firsthand accounts capture the last generation's memories of slavery before emancipation. However, the collection's use of primarily white interviewers has sparked ongoing debate about bias and authenticity, making these narratives
both invaluable historical documents and contested sites of memory.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 II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 |
| 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: 93.7 (5th grade). Very easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861) |
| Subject | Slave narratives -- Arkansas |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography |
| Subject | Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Slavery -- Arkansas |
| Subject | African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 11709 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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