Slave Narratives North Carolina Narratives

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807876756

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North Carolina Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews Pdf

The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national--even international--indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), Lunsford Lane (1842), Moses Grandy (1843), and the Reverend Thomas H. Jones (1854) provide a moving testament to the struggles of enslaved people to affirm their human dignity and ultimately seize their liberty. Introductions to each narrative provide biographical and historical information as well as explanatory notes. Andrews's general introduction to the collection reveals that these narratives not only helped energize the abolitionist movement but also laid the groundwork for an African American literary tradition that inspired such novelists as Toni Morrison and Charles Johnson.

Author : Creekside Publishing Company,Wpa Writers Project,Stephen Payseur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965669750

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North Carolina Slave Narratives Vol. 2 by Creekside Publishing Company,Wpa Writers Project,Stephen Payseur Pdf

Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557090201

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North Carolina Slave Narratives by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Author : Norman R. Yetman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486131016

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Voices from Slavery by Norman R. Yetman Pdf

Vivid descriptions of the horrors of slave auctions, and many other unforgettable and sometimes unrepeatable details of slave life. Accompanied by 32 starkly compelling photographs.

Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807864203

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Slavery Remembered by Paul D. Escott Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Payseur,W.p.a. Writers Project
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1492977292

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The North Carolina Slave Narratives Vol. 1 A-H by Stephen Payseur,W.p.a. Writers Project Pdf

In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed writers, editors, teachers and others to work. They were paid between $20 and $25 dollars per week on average. Over 6000 people were employed by the Federal Writers Project. Some later on became quite famous in the literary world. Among those were Conrad Aiken, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Anna Bontemps, John Cheever, Malcolm Cowley, Edward Dahlberg, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude Mckay, Kenneth Patchen, Phillip Rahv, Kenneth Rexroth, Harold Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Studs Terkel, Margaret Walker, Richard Wright, and Frank Yerby. One of the Writers Project best known projects was the Oral History Project. Interviewers went out all over the country talking to the “common” people to document their lives. Thousands of people in hundreds of groups were interviewed. One of these groups were former slaves. This book is a compilation of some of those interviews conducted in North Carolina. As you read them you will notice that the interviewers tried to write as the subjects spoke, in their own dialect. The former slaves used words and terms that are not considered politically correct in today's world. They may be offensive to some, but I hope not. It is how the subjects of the interviews actually spoke. In this book, the interviews are presented exactly as they were written during the years 1836-1938. They have not been edited. The writers at that time were instructed to stick to the exact words spoken by those interviewed. Editing it was feared would change the tone and meaning of the interview. So, here they are. If they give anyone offense, I sincerely apologize. I feel that these documents are far too important to be languishing in some collection, that most people will never see. It is my hope that you will find these stories compelling, fascinating, disturbing, interesting and an essential chronicle of an unpleasant and embarrassing period in our nation's history.

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300534624

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Slave Narratives: Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration Pdf

Author : William L. Andrews,Henry Louis Gates
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781598532128

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Slave Narratives (LOA #114) by William L. Andrews,Henry Louis Gates Pdf

The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw; Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; The Confessions of Nat Turner; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Narrative of William W. Brown; Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb; Narrative of Sojouner Truth; Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Narrative of the Life of J. D.Green.

Author : Moses Grandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UOM:69015000002697

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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy by Moses Grandy Pdf

This book is a slave narrative, written by former slave, Moses Grandy.

Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557090232

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South Carolina Slave Narratives by Federal Writers' Project Pdf

Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.

Author : Susanna Ashton
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611171679

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I Belong to South Carolina by Susanna Ashton Pdf

Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives,only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude. First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present a representative cross section of slave experiences, from religious awakenings and artisan apprenticeships to sexual exploitations and harrowing escapes. In their distinctive individual voices, narrators celebrate and mourn the lives of fellow slaves, contemplate the meaning of freedom, and share insights into the social patterns and cultural controls exercised during a turbulent period in American history. Each narrative is preceded by an introduction to place its content and publication history in historical context. The volume also features an afterword surveying other significant slave narratives and related historical documents on South Carolina. I Belong to South Carolina reinserts a chorus of powerful voices of the dispossessed into South Carolina's public history, reminding us of the cruelties of the past and the need for vigilant guardianship of liberty in the present and future.

Author : Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1938-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0403030250

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North Carolina Slave Narratives - Part 1 by Federal Writers' Project (Fwp),Works Project Administration (Wpa) Pdf

North Carolina Slave Narratives contains a folk history of slavery in the United States from Interviews with former North Carolina slaves.

Author : Catherine A. Stewart
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626277

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Long Past Slavery by Catherine A. Stewart Pdf

From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition. By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history.

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0195052625

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Six Women's Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews Pdf

Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that era.

Author : Charles Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433082336854

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Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball Pdf