Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
United States. Work Projects Administration
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2009-02-24
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"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The work preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, capturing their life histories before their generation disappeared. These firsthand accounts offer unprecedented testimony about slavery, though historians debate how white interviewers' presence may have shaped the narratives. The collection remains a contested but invaluable window into American slavery and its lasting impact on national identity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
African Americans -- Biography Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography Slavery -- South Carolina African Americans -- Folklore
E300
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2009-02-24
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images
generously made available by the Library of Congress,
Manuscript Division) Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images
generously made available by the Library of Congress,
Manuscript Division)
"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The work preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, capturing their life histories before their generation disappeared. These firsthand accounts offer unprecedented testimony about slavery, though historians debate how white interviewers' presence may have shaped the narratives. The collection remains a contested but invaluable window into American slavery and its lasting impact on national identity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
African Americans -- Biography Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography Slavery -- South Carolina African Americans -- Folklore
E300