Oklahoma Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938Paperback, 15 June 2006

Oklahoma Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
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Part of Series
Slave Narratives
Print Length
168 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Applewood Books
Date Published
15 Jun 2006
ISBN-10
155709022X
ISBN-13
9781557090225

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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 Congress This paperback edition of selected Oklahoma narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

Product Details

Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 June 2006
Dimensions:
23.42 x 19.25 x 1.02 cm
ISBN-10:
155709022X
ISBN-13:
9781557090225
Language:
English
Pages:
168
Publisher:
Applewood Books
Weight:
322.05 gm

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