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 II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 AV - E300 PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Slave narratives -- Arkansas KW - Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography KW - Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions KW - Slavery -- Arkansas KW - African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection; Release date is 2004-10-11; Produced by Jeannie Howse, Andrea Ball, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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 life histories before the last generation born into slavery disappeared. However, the collection sparked controversy: primarily white interviewers conducted the interviews during Jim Crow, raising questions about whether interviewees could speak freely or had to modify their accounts for safety and survival. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13700 ER -