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- Slave Narratives
Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the...
- Slave Narratives
25. Okt. 2021 · Download or stream over one hundred stories of former slaves written before and after the civil war. This collection includes Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs and other influential authors.
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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...
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.
Slave narratives are autobiographical accounts of the physical and spiritual journey from slavery to freedom. In researching her groundbreaking 1946 dissertation, Marion Wilson Starling located 6,006 slave narratives written between 1703 and 1944.
