Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book series ⓘ
historical document ⓘ
oral history collection ⓘ
aim preserve memories of former slaves ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project ⓘ
WPA Slave Narratives ⓘ
archivedAt Library of Congress ⓘ
associatedWithProgram Federal Writers' Project Slave Narrative Collection ⓘ
basedOn interviews with formerly enslaved people ⓘ
citationForm Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ
compiledBy Federal Writers' Project ⓘ
Works Progress Administration ⓘ
compiledInPeriod 1930s ⓘ
1940s ⓘ
contains first-person accounts of slavery ⓘ
interview transcripts ⓘ
photographs of interviewees ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
digitalAvailability available online via Library of Congress ⓘ
documentationMethod audio recordings (in some cases) ⓘ
field notes ⓘ
typed transcripts ⓘ
editorialNote reflects interviewers' biases and dialect rendering ⓘ
format multi-volume printed series ⓘ
genre oral history ⓘ
slave narrative ⓘ
hasPart state-by-state volumes ⓘ
historicalPeriodDescribed American Civil War ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ
antebellum South ⓘ
interviewees formerly enslaved African Americans ⓘ
language English ⓘ
mainSubject African American history ⓘ
oral testimony ⓘ
slavery in the United States ⓘ
numberOfVolumes multiple volumes ⓘ
publisher United States Government Printing Office ⓘ
regardedAs major primary source on American slavery ⓘ
scope border states ⓘ
southern United States ⓘ
timeOfInterviews 1936–1938 ⓘ
usedIn African American studies ⓘ
historical research on slavery ⓘ
oral history methodology studies ⓘ

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Federal Writers’ Project → notableOutput → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves → citationForm → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves → alsoKnownAs → WPA Slave Narratives ⓘ
linked to: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves → alsoKnownAs → Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project ⓘ
linked to: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Henry Alsberg → notableProject → Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives collection ⓘ
linked to: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Linda Brent → relatedWork → American slave narratives ⓘ
linked to: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves