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100 1 _aUnited States. Work Projects Administration
245 1 0 _aSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection
500 _aRelease date is 2004-08-18
508 _aProduced by Andrea Ball and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Produced from images provided by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division.
520 _a"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 documented over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved individuals across seventeen states, preserving their memories before this generation disappeared. However, the collection sparked controversy: most interviewers were white, raising questions about whether subjects modified their accounts under Jim Crow conditions. The narratives became contested ground where power, race, and the right to full citizenship were negotiated through storytelling. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEnslaved persons -- United States -- Biography
653 _aEnslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
653 _aAfrican Americans -- Ohio -- Biography
653 _aAfrican Americans -- History -- 19th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13217
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