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Memories of the enslaved : voices from the slave narratives / Spencer R. Crew, Lonnie G. Bunch III, and Clement A. Price, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Interviews.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--Sources.
- Slave narratives--United States.
- Slave narratives.
- Slavery--United States--History--Sources.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--Sources.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social life and customs--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlix, 303 pages) : illustrations
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a sense of the experience of enslavement.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the history of the slave narratives
- The community and culture of the enslaved
- Hardships of an enslaved childhood
- The family under slavery
- Women and enslavement
- Work and slavery
- Physical abuse and intimidation
- Runaways and the quest for freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400684685
- 9798216116622
- 9781440837791
- 1440837791
- OCLC:
- 1410482593
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