American Slave Narratives - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Sep 09
  

  Lindsay Andreas

  The slave narrative project of the WPA in the 1930s is one of our greatest historical preservation efforts. Today, historians are scrambling around to preserve the narratives of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets, as they are rapidly leaving us. This is a good way to introduce the importance of oral histories. It would also be a good piece to start a lesson on evaluating primary sources.

  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from
    
    across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under
    
    the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most
    
    born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided
    
    first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and
    
    on small farms.
• 01 Aug 09
  

  Rena Shifflet

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• 24 Jul 09
  

  Monique White

  This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.

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  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the
    American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of
    the Works Progress Administration
• 10 Jul 09
  

  Deven Black

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• 16 Jun 09
  

  Keisa Williams

  This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite

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• 12 Mar 09
  

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• 16 Feb 09
  

  Laura C

  From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.

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