Synopses & Reviews
In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers' Project. One of the group's most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection, a series of books consisting of more than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple words, provided often startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. This book reprints some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the collection. These memoirs represent an illuminating and unique source of information about life in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, and about the institution of slavery. Most importantly, they preserve the opinions and perspectives of those who were enslaved.
Synopsis
More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.
Synopsis
More than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple language, provide often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. Includes some of the most detailed, compelling, and engrossing life histories in the Slave Narrative Collection, a project funded by the U.S. Government. An illuminating source of information.