When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection Contributor(s): Yetman, Norman R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486420701 ISBN-13: 9780486420707 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2002019227 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.28" W x 8.14" (0.28 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States 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, consisting of more than 2,000 transcripts of 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 and engrossing life histories in the collection. Each narrative is complete. |