Slave Narratives: A Folk History Of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives Part 7

by Work Projects Administration

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slavery

Slavery told from.the slaves viewpoint is considerably different from the history.books. These narratives should be required reading in high school. I was amazed by the wisdom so.many of these people expressed. Also sad that American history includes these stories.

[Lori Sexton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect!

This gives such great insight into our history. I am so glad they decided to do this project. It is worth the read.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is part of a series of interviews the United States government (under the WPA) conducted with former slaves in Arkansas during The Great Depression. It’s interesting to read the former slaves’ recollections and events they experienced or overhead during the slave years, and their general thoughts on the current world and society. Many, but not all, of the interviews were transcribed in dialect, so reading them is all the more special.

It continues to fascinate me how many of them speak about how the youngsters of their current day don’t appreciate what they have and that they are generally “lazy” (Some thoughts and comments such as these just don’t change over the centuries, do they?), and that they had a better life under slavery since they had every need securely supplied on the plantation. The contemporary black and white photographs add greatly to this work of valuable history and research.

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