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 XII, Ohio Narratives
AV  - E300 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
KW  - Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
KW  - African Americans -- Ohio -- Biography
KW  - African Americans -- History -- 19th century
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection; Release date is 2004-08-18; Produced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced
from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13217
ER  -