Synopses & Reviews
In 1998, The New Press published
Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers Project, the astonishing audiotapes made available the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavementrecordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this set.
Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this naturenationwide critical and review coverage as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. The tapes have been aired repeatedly on public radio stations across the country. Reviewers called the set chilling
[and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice).
Now this groundbreaking set is available for a new generation of readers and listeners, offering remastered compact discs in MP3 format of the extensive original live recordings of interviews with former slaves.
*The audio for this new edition is on MP3 compact discs. MP3 audio books on compact disc can be played on newer CD players that support MP3 technology and accept a 4.75”-diameter disc and on any personal computer that has Microsofts Media Player or similar software.
Review
"This project will enrich every American home and classroom."
—Publishers Weekly
"As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country."
The Boston Globe
"Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature."
The Washington Post Book World
"Ira Berlins fifty-page introduction is as good a synthesis of current scholarship as one will find, with fresh insights for any reader."
The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Invaluable."
Chicago Tribune
Synopsis
A book-and-tape set featuring the only known original recordings of interviews with former slaves. A free listening and teaching guide is available.
Synopsis
The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos.
About the Author
Ira Berlin is the author of Many Thousands Gone, which won both the Bancroft Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Steven F. Miller is co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and was co-editor with Berlin of Free at Last. Marc Favreau is the editorial director of The New Press. Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.