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 4 AV - E300 PY - 2008/// 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 2008-04-24; 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 of histories compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The collection contains over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their life stories before they were lost. However, historians debate its reliability, as primarily white interviewers conducted the interviews during the Jim Crow era, raising questions about whether interviewees modified their accounts due to racial dynamics and whether the collection presents a distorted view of slavery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25154 ER -