01894cam a22003133u 4500 28973 UtSlPG 20260610133647.0 m cr n 260607r2009||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 E300 United States. Work Projects Administration Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVII, Virginia Narratives Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2009 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2009-05-26 Produced by René Anderson Benitz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division) "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from..." is a collection compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. Over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals were conducted across seventeen states, preserving their life stories before they were lost forever. These testimonies offer direct accounts of slavery from those who lived it, though the use of primarily white interviewers has sparked ongoing debate about bias and authenticity in how these crucial voices were recorded and represented. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28973 69821 69821