North Carolina Slave Narratives

Name: North Carolina Slave Narratives
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ISBN: 9781557090201

ISBN-10: 1557090203

ISBN-13: 9781557090201

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Authors: R. Christopher Goodwin, Federal Writers' Project Staff, Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (Miss.) Staff

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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…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Applewood Books
Publication date: 6/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.37" tall
Weight: 0.880