SLAVE NARRATIVES: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – Mississippi
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – Mississippi
First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Mississippi. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryla
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs’ narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.
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