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

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

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  Karen Witzler

  Amazing reading. This volume features narratives from the state of Georgia and is free on Kindle; the entire WPA state-by-state project is available on Project Gutenberg. Each life could be a novel. These were not included in my education in the deep south - either as literature or as history -- and they should have been as they are both. ----- I opened this up at 3:00 am and could not put it down ----- one life leads to another.
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  Christine

  Well worth reading.
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  Susan

  This is just one of a series of interviews the government conducted with former slaves in Georgia during The Great Depression. It’s interesting to read the former slaves’ recollections and events they experienced or overhead during the slave years, and their general thoughts on the current world and society. Many, but not all, of the interviews were transcribed in dialect, so reading them is all the more special. It continues to fascinate me how many of them speak about how the youngsters of their current day don’t appreciate what they have and that they are generally “lazy” (Some thoughts and comments such as these just don’t change over the centuries, do they?), and that they had a better life under slavery since they had every need securely supplied on the plantation. The contemporary black and white photographs add greatly to this work of valuable history and research.
  
  📙Published in 1941.
  
  🟢The e-book version can be found at
  Project Gutenberg.
  🟣 Kindle.
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  Jessica Roberts

  Ok....first look up Works Projects Administration
  
  And then you start reading. It's an impressive source for students studying slavery. It's also useful for getting a feel for the era after the civil war.