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Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557090102
Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
Author : Federal Writers' Project,Works Project Administration (Wpa)
Publisher : North American Book Distributors, LLC
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1938-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1878592750
Alabama Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former Alabama slaves.
Author : Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Alabama
ISBN : OCLC:1325576423
Transcriptions of first-person accounts of slavery by former slaves, collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Author : Work Projects Administration Work Projects Administration
Publisher : anboco
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736407220
Slaves an dInformants interviewed by Maude Barragan, Edith Bell Love, Ruby Lorraine Radford etc. Telfair, Georgia Thomas, Cordelia Thomas, Ike Toombs, Jane Mickens Town, Phil Upson, Neal Van Hook, John F. Vinson, Addie Virgel, Emma Walton, Rhodus Ward, William Washington, Lula Willbanks, Green Williamson, Eliza Willingham, Frances Willis, Adeline Willis, Uncle Winfield, Cornelia Womble, George Wright, Henry Young, Dink Walton Adeline Eugene Mary Rachel Laura Matilda Easter Carrie Malinda Amelia Ellen Campbell Rachel Sullivan Eugene Wesley Smith Willis Bennefield Uncle Willis Emmaline Heard Rosa and Jasper Millegan Camilla Jackson Anna Grant Emmaline Heard Richmond County Folklore Conjuration Folk Remedies and Superstitions Mistreatment of Slaves Slavery Work, Play, Food, Clothing, Marriage, etc.
Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Livingston Press (AL)
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : UCSC:32106014627696
Cush was a mixture of corn meal, water, and bacon grease cooked over an open fire by Confederate soldiers. That the editors have taken this title for the book indicates the emotional impact of Sprott's Civil War memoirs. Not only do we march and eat this mixture with Sprott, but we witness with him the first execution of Confederate deserters, the bewilderment and frustration of battling infantrymen with what they considered the inane orders from above, the bravery -- and the foolhardiness -- that war inevitably brings. This memoir follows the Sumter regiment from its first training sessions to its duty in Mobile near the war's end.
Author : United States Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465612199
Uncle Charlie, as he is known among his own color and the white people who know him, told the writer he was born at Petersburg Va., and his parents, Aaron and Louisa, were owned by a Mr. J.H. White, who had a store in the city, but no plantation. His parents had three children, two boys and one girl, and when Uncle Charlie was about ten years of age, he was sold by Mr. White to a speculator named Jones who brought him to Mobile. He recalled being placed on the block, at the slave mart on Royal and State streets, and the anxiety of hearing the different people bidding for him, and being finally sold to a Mr. Jason Harris, who lived near Newton Station in Jasper County, Miss. Uncle Charlie never saw or heard of his parents or brother and sister again and never knew what became of them. Uncle Charlie said Mr. Harris was a pretty rough master, and somewhat close. All rations were weighed out and limited. He had a white overseer and a negro driver, who was the meanest of all. Mr. Jason Harris had about sixty slaves, and a large plantation of a hundred acres, the men and women worked in the fields from six to six, except on Saturday, when they had half day holiday to clean up generally. The home of the Harris family was a large two story house and the quarters were the regular log cabins with clay chimneys. They cooked in their cabins, but during the busy season in the fields their dinners were sent out to them each slave having his own tin pail marked with his name. Water would be sent out in a barrel mounted on an ox cart.
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1642270288
ALABAMA WPA SLAVE NARRATIVES offer a wealth of information concerning the personal lives of those enslaved in the state of Alabama. This volume contains the personal interviews of 129 former slaves with over 70 photos of the interviewed subjects. Alabama WPA slave narratives are a rich source of primary historical information, the photos bring a unique context to the narratives as well.
Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781300539063
In the 1930s the Works Project Administration, sponsored by the United States, set out to document the lives of former slaves to find out what life really was like. What you are about to hear is the actual words of men and women who lived under slavery and what life was truly like. Some of the words you may hear may be disturbing and painful to some. It stands as a reminder the horrors and terror of slavery in the United States. We shall not forget.
Author : James Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Slavery
ISBN : IND:39000003730988
Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1374939897
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. W. C. Pennington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409985636
James William Charles Pennington (1809-1870) was an African American orator, minister, and abolitionist. Pennington was born a slave in Washington County, Maryland. After escaping to Littlestown, Pennsylvania, Pennington moved to New York in 1828. A blacksmith by trade, he settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and audited classes at Yale Divinity School from 1834 to 1839, becoming the first black man to attend classes at Yale. He was subsequently ordained and became a teacher, abolitionist, and author. He wrote The Origin and History of the Colored People in 1841, which has been called the first history of African Americans, and a slave narrative in 1850, The Fugitive Blacksmith. In 1849 the University of Heidelberg awarded him an honorary doctorate of divinity.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780062748225
New York Times Bestseller • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’s Best Audio Books of 2018 • The Atlantic’s Books Briefing: History, Reconsidered • Atlanta Journal Constitution, Best Southern Books 2018 • The Christian Science Monitor’s Best Books 2018 • “A profound impact on Hurston’s literary legacy.”—New York Times “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison “Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece.”—Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last "Black Cargo" ship to arrive in the United States. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation’s history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo’s firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo’s past—memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo’s unique vernacular, and written from Hurston’s perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
Author : Randall Williams
Publisher : Blair
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061323708
First-person narratives of former Alabama slaves edited from WPA slave narratives.
Author : Federal Writers Project
Publisher : Native American Book Publishers
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1938-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781878592934
From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery program. Each entry represents an oral history of a former slave or a descendant of a former slave and his or her personal account of life during slavery and emancipation. These interviews were published as type written records that were difficult to read. This new edition has been enlarged and enhanced for greater legibility. No library collection in Arkansas would be complete without a copy of Arkansas Slave Narratives.
Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807864203
Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life, including diet, physical treatment, working conditions, housing, forms of resistance, and black overseers; slave cultural institutions; status distinctions among slaves; experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the subsequent life histories of the former slaves. An important contribution to the study of American slavery, Slavery Remembered is an ideal classroom text for American history surveys as well as more specialized courses.