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Author : Federal Writers' Project
Release : 2006-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Arkansas Slave Narratives by : Federal Writers' Project
Download or read book Arkansas Slave Narratives written by Federal Writers' Project. This book was released on 2006-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Author : Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas
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Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection by : Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas
Download or read book The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection written by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arkansas. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of first-hand narratives of ex-slaves in Arkansas gathered by the Work Projects Administration between 1936 and 1938.
Author : Works Progress Administration
Release : 2015-06-30
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Book Synopsis The Wpa Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection by : Works Progress Administration
Download or read book The Wpa Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection written by Works Progress Administration. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This volume consists of Parts 1 & 2 of Volume II of the Arkansas Slave Narratives and interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration. These slave narratives/interviews represent some of the only sources of information from former slaves in the United States, as many slaves were not allowed to learn to read or write, therefore only a small number of former slaves were able to document their experiences while in bondage as a slave in America. Although, there are some criticisms of these interviews, they do offer some valuable insights into the daily lives of those who were slaves in America. Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas
Author : George E. Lankford
Release : 2006-03-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Bearing Witness by : George E. Lankford
Download or read book Bearing Witness written by George E. Lankford. This book was released on 2006-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Bearing Witness brought together for the first time 176 slave narratives from the state of Arkansas. Now, this new edition adds ten previously undiscovered accounts. No one knew the truths of slavery better than the slaves themselves, but no one consulted them until the 1930s. Then, recognizing that this generation of unique witnesses would soon be lost to history, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project acted to interview as many former slaves as possible. In a continuation of the project's interest in the life histories of ordinary people, writers interviewed over two thousand former slaves, more than a third of them in Arkansas. These oral histories were first published in the 1970s in a thirty-nine-volume series organized by state, and they transformed America's understanding of slavery. They have offered crucial evidence on a variety of other topics as well: the Civil War, Reconstruction, agricultural practices, everyday life, and oral history itself. But some former Arkansas slaves were interviewed in Texas, Oklahoma, and other states, so their narratives were published in those other collections. And more than half of the testimonies in the Arkansas volume were interviews with people who had moved to Arkansas after freedom. Folklorist George Lankford combed all of the state collections for the testimonies properly belonging to Arkansas and deleted from this state's collection the testimony of later migrants
Author : Works Progress Administration
Release : 2017-12-29
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Book Synopsis The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII by : Works Progress Administration
Download or read book The WPA Arkansas Slave Narratives Collection. Part VII written by Works Progress Administration. This book was released on 2017-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
