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Tennessee Slave Narratives - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 (Paperback)
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Tennessee Slave Narratives - Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 (Paperback)
Series: Slave Narratives
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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 all
of the Tennessee narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the
typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally
typed.
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