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Sto caricando le informazioni... Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives (1941)di Federal Writers' Project
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I downloaded this from Project Gutenberg and it was easy to read: no typos and formatting was good. I don't know what to think of the book itself. These were done, I think, in the 1930's and most of the former slaves were very old. Their words were written in dialect which I thought was unneccesary (since it made it difficult to read) and the people interviewing them seem a little condescending. However, it was interesting to read what they thought and what they went through from their own mouths. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the "peculiar institution," to describe in their own words what it felt like to be a slave in the United States.--Norman R. Yetman, American Memory, Library of CongressThis paperback edition of all of the Ohio narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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