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2. Mai 2011 · Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives. Author: Work Projects Administration. Release Date: May 02, 2011 [EBook #36020] Language: English. Character set encoding: UTF-8
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www ...
2. Dez. 2009 · SLAVE NARRATIVES. A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Illustrated with ...
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Ad...
The published volumes containing edited slave narratives are arranged alphabetically by the state in which the interviews took place and thereunder by the surname of the informant. Administrative files for the project are bound at the beginning of Volume 1. These files detail the instructions and other information supplied to field workers as well ...
Other records relating to the ex-slave project are among the FWP files at the National Archives and Records Administration (Record Group 69.5.5) and are described in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, Vol. I. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995). Volumes 2-17 of The American...
Browse over 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Learn about the historical context, the interviewers, and the editing process of this online collection.
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The slave narrative has emerged as a fundamental genre within literary studies. This Companion examines the slave narrative’s relation to transatlantic aboli-tionism, British and American literary traditions including captivity narratives, autobiography, and sentimental literature, and the larger African American lit-erary tradition.
Download a PDF of the Slave Narratives compiled by the FWP, 1936–1938, containing firsthand accounts of slavery from former slaves. Find out how to access the published volumes, supplemental series, and other resources at the Library of Congress.
