Slavery remembered : a record of twentieth-century slave narratives / by Paul D. Escott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escott, Paul D., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives in the Federal Writers' Project. Escott read nearly 2,400 narratives to establish 81 categories of information for computer analysis. Tables presenting this data are set within a well-organized text that includes many quotations. Slavery remembered is an important contribution to the study of American slavery and, because of its brevity and clarity, an ideal classroom text for American history surveys as well as more specialized courses.

Contents:

Cover Page; Slavery Remembered; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Preface; Introduction: The Narratives as a Source; 1. Two Peoples and Two Worlds; 2. Conditions of Life: The Slaves' Experiences on the Plantation; 3. Improving the Conditions of Life: Forms of Slave Resistance; 4. Bases of a Black Culture; 5. "Seeing How the Land Lay" in Freedom; 6. "Starting Uphill, den Going Back"; 7. Life Patterns of the Freedom Generation; Afterword; Appendix A Methods of Recording and Coding Information; Appendix B Race of Interviewers; Appendix C Additional Tables; Appendix D New Narratives; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9798890865625

9780807864203

080786420X

OCLC:

54357257