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21. Mai 2024 · 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 ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The biggest selling of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century slave narratives was Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901), a classic American success story that extolled African American progress and interracial cooperation in the Black Belt of the deep South since the end of slavery in 1865.
13. Mai 2024 · Includes 15 slave narratives, including those of William and Ellen Craft, Olaudah Equinao, and Harriet Tubman; seven WPA narratives from the Federal Writers' Project and 47 oral histories collected through interviews or from existing materials found in archives.
21. Mai 2024 · Slave narratives are a remarkable historical and literary record, and thanks to a number of organizations, many are available online, where we can read, hear, and even see some of the men and women behind these stories.
- Hazel McClure
- 2015
Vor 6 Tagen · Slave narratives have been called the United States’ only homegrown literary genre, if also a complicated one. Well into the 20th century, they were dogged by questions about their...
15. Mai 2024 · Slave narratives comprise one of the most influential traditions in American literature, shaping the form and themes of some of the most celebrated and controversial writing, both in fiction and in autobiography, in the history of the United States.
8. Mai 2024 · Formerly enslaved persons, most often with sponsorship from white abolitionists, wrote and published first-person narratives detailing the horrors of life in bondage and their strenuous path to freedom, though the journeys were far from linear.
