TY  - BOOK
AU  - United StatesWork Projects Administration
TI  - Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives
AV  - E300 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Biography
KW  - Slavery -- Maryland
KW  - Slave narratives -- Maryland
KW  - Enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Social conditions
KW  - African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography
N1  - 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
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N2  - "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. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals were documented across seventeen states, preserving their memories before the last generation disappeared. The collection sparked controversy due to predominantly white interviewers potentially influencing accounts during the Jim Crow era. These narratives offer crucial insights into enslaved life while raising complex questions about historical documentation, racial power dynamics, and whose voices truly emerge from the archive. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11552
ER  -