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historical document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