Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with Cornelia Bailey, folklorist and slave descendant / [produced by WGBH].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Smith, Llewellyn, producer, director.

Bailey, Cornelia, interviewee.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bailey, Cornelia--Interviews.

Bailey, Cornelia.

African Americans--History--To 1863.

African Americans.

African Americans--Psychology--History.

Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Genre:

Interviews.

Unedited footage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Cornelia Bailey is interviewed about ancestral memories of coping and perseverance, going to a better place, spiritual communication, the importance of family, revenge stories, life as an overseer, making do with what you have, Butler Island and slave life, hardships of working in rice and feeding your family, preserving pride, going back to go forward, resistance, forming new communities after slavery, joining the church and baptism, religious practice before there was a church, double talking, song for loved ones dying in the field "King Buzzard."

Participant:

Interviewee: Cornelia Bailey.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017).

OCLC:

1009098967