Bibliograph

River of blood, American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans, edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; foreword by Adam Green

Type

Label

River of blood, American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans, edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; foreword by Adam Green

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

River of blood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; foreword by Adam Green

Sub title

American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans

Summary

"In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping? The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as the Slave Narratives. This book highlights those narratives--condensing tens of thousands of pages into short excerpts from about 100 former slaves and pairs their accounts with their photographs, taken by the workers sent to record their stories." --Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Slavery and identity -- Day to day -- Trauma that lasts forever -- War and freedom -- The pain of Reconstruction -- Once a slave

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