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 XV, Tennessee Narratives AV - E300 PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Slave narratives -- Tennessee KW - Enslaved persons -- Tennessee -- Biography KW - Enslaved persons -- Tennessee -- Social conditions KW - Slavery -- Tennessee KW - African Americans -- Tennessee -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection; Release date is 2006-11-27; Batson, Frances -- Casey, Julia -- Chappel, Cecelia -- Childress, Wiley -- Falls, Robert -- Gaines, Rachel -- Goole, Frankie -- Gray, Precilla -- Greer, Jenny -- Grisham, Emma -- Hudson, Measy -- Hyde, Patsy -- Kannon, Ellis Ken -- Martin, Scott -- Matthews, Ann -- Moore, Rev. John -- Moss, Andrew -- Moss, Mollie -- Odell, Andy -- Parker, laura Ramsey -- Reece, Naisy -- Simpkins, Millie -- Star, Joseph Leonidas -- Thomas, Dan -- Watkins, Sylvia -- Young, Narcissus; Produced by Diane Monico and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available 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 captured over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their life stories before they were lost to time. While these narratives offer invaluable firsthand accounts, historians debate their reliability, as predominantly white interviewers may have influenced how subjects shared their experiences during the Jim Crow era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19932 ER -