Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6
United States. Work Projects Administration
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2004-03-01
Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced
from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced
from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
"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white interviewers has sparked ongoing debate about bias and authenticity, making these narratives both invaluable historical documents and contested sites of memory.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.)
Slave narratives -- Arkansas Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions Slavery -- Arkansas African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2004-03-01
Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced
from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced
from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
"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.)
Slave narratives -- Arkansas Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions Slavery -- Arkansas African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography
E300