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 by the Federal Writers' Project. More than 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people across seventeen states preserved their firsthand accounts before they were lost forever. These testimonies, conducted primarily by white interviewers during the Great Depression, sparked debate about bias and authenticity while offering irreplaceable glimpses into both antebellum slavery and Jim Crow-era race relations. (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 3
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection
Credits Produced by Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 93.0 (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
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EBook-No. 19446
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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