United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2009-12-02

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"Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection of oral histories compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. The work preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people, documenting their memories and experiences. While invaluable for capturing stories that would otherwise have been lost, the collection remains controversial due to its primarily white interviewers and questions about how race relations shaped these testimonies during the Jim Crow era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Texas -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Texas -- Biography African Americans -- Texas -- Interviews African Americans -- Texas -- History -- Sources

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