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 XVII, Virginia Narratives AV - E300 PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography N1 - 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); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28973 ER -