Author: Works Progress AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781642270495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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LARGE PRINT EDITION
The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part 4
Author: Works Progress AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781642270495
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
LARGE PRINT EDITION
Arkansas Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers ProjectPublisher: Native American Book Publishers
ISBN: 1878592939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2056
Book Description
From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published as type written records that were difficult to read. This new edition has been enlarged and enhanced for greater legibility. No library collection in Arkansas would be complete without a copy of Arkansas Slave Narratives.
The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection
Author: Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of ArkansasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781642270396
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of first-hand narratives of ex-slaves in Arkansas gathered by the Work Projects Administration between 1936 and 1938.
Remembering Slavery
Author: Marc FavreauPublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1620970449
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Virginia Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557090254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Texas Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN: 9781878592620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher:
ISBN: 9780403030415
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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Tennessee Slave Narratives
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557090246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
The American Slave: a Composite Autobiography
Author: George P. RawickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Dem Days Was Hell - Recorded Testimonies of Former Slaves from 17 U.S. States
Author: Work Projects AdministrationPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026874048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 6007
Book Description
Step back in time and meet everyday people from another era: This edition brings to you the complete collection of hundreds of life stories, incredible vivid testimonies of former slaves from 17 U.S. southern states, including photos of the people being interviewed and their extraordinary narratives. After the end of Civil War in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. There were several efforts to record the remembrances of the former slaves. The Federal Writers' Project was one such project by the United States federal government to support writers during the Great Depression by asking them to interview and record the myriad stories and experiences of slavery of former slaves. The resulting collection preserved hundreds of life stories from 17 U.S. states that would otherwise have been lost in din of modernity and America's eagerness to deliberately forget the blot on its recent past. Contents: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kansas Kentucky Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia