Presents a collection of detailed narratives by African American writers who experienced slavery, and shows how their stories had an impact on the social history of America before emancipation.
The Works Projects Administration was a government agency set up by President Roosevelt's New Deal to help put people to work during the Great Depression.
United States Work Projects Administration ... States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 19361938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR ...
Personal interview with Nelson and Virginia Birdsong Summerville, on Front Street —Ila B. Prine, Mobile, Alabama NELSON BIRDSONG REMEMBERS HIS MASTER Nelson Birdsong, who lives on Front Street in the old suburb of Summerville, ...
A compilation of essays analyzes the origins and development of the slave narrative, as well as its literary style, content, and impact, and explores themes, including the slaves' desire for freedom, dignity, and self-respect.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, from Interviews with Former Slaves
I don't recollect my mother; I was so small when I was parted from her. I had two sisters and I recollect them. One of my sisters was sold the same day I was sold and I recollect my other sister was named Rebecca. I never seen her no ...
My sister stayed with Joe Duggins. Her missis was a schoolteacher, and she loved sister. My master gave my sister to Joe Duggins. Mrs. Duggins taught my sister, Fannie, to read and spell but not to write. If there was a slave man that ...
Have we chillun to sit by the fireplace put the light-wood under—blaze up. We four chillun have to pick seed out the cotton. Work till ten o'clock at night and rise early! Mudder and Father tell you story to keep you eye open!
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II
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" You stay with me. She didn't give me no money, but let me stay there an' work for vitals an' clothes 'cause I ain't had no where to go. Jesus, Jesus, God help us! Um, Um, Um! You Chillun don't know.
Uncle Charlie, as he is known among his own color and the white people who know him, told the writer he was born at Petersburg Va., and his parents, Aaron and Louisa, were owned by a Mr. J.H. White, who had a store in the city, but no ...
Oliver Arnold bought her, and he also purchased her three brothers and one uncle. The four negroes were taken along with other slaves from Georgia to Tennessee where they were put to work on the Arnold plantation.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Annotation TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938.
Slave Narratives
Slave Narratives: Alabama and Indiana narratives
These harrowing accounts and interviews give a painful, realistic view of the atrocity of slavery and the impact it had on the United States; the first volume of this work, this focuses on slaves in the state of Alabama.