Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Reviews

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  Christine

  This book is one of the good things that came out of the Depression. To get people to work, the goverment (as in FDR) sent people around to gather oral history and folklore. Its one of the reasons that we have some of Zora Neale Hurston's work (her folklore collections). These workers collected Slave narratives. This free kindle work are some of the interviews from North Carolina.
  
  They are transcribe here in dialect, so the spelling is non-standard. This might be off putting to some, but reading these collections are important. Not only because of the voices they record, but because they are truthful response to those who say things like "the slaves that built the White House were at least fed".
  
  And now, with the rise of digital media, there is no excuse not to read them.
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  pegi johnson

  Another fine book
  
  Another fine book in this series of treasures. I realize now how much the history books in school actually left out. I think they could put these on a high school reading list. It's important for people to know where they come from.
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  Susan

  This is part of a series of interviews the United States government (under the WPA) conducted with former slaves in North Carolina during The Great Depression. It’s interesting to read the former slaves’ recollections and events they experienced or o
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  Dara

  Couldn't get past the first few chapters. Not as interesting as I was hoping for.