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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection  Release date is 2004-08-18 
<br/><br/>Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced<br/>from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.  Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced<br/>from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. 
<br/><br/> "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project between 1936 and 1938. The project documented over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their memories before this generation disappeared. However, the collection sparked controversy: most interviewers were white, raising questions about whether subjects modified their accounts under Jim Crow conditions. The narratives became contested ground where power, race, and the right to full citizenship were negotiated through storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions African Americans -- Ohio -- Biography African Americans -- History -- 19th century 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E300