Bibliograph

Remembering slavery, African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller ; [foreword (to the 2021 edition) by Annette Gordon-Reed]

Type

Label

Remembering slavery, African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller ; [foreword (to the 2021 edition) by Annette Gordon-Reed]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Remembering slavery

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1050525539

Responsibility statement

edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller ; [foreword (to the 2021 edition) by Annette Gordon-Reed]

Sub title

African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation

Summary

No group of people better understood the power of slavery<U+2019>s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America.--, Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life: "from can to can't" -- Family life in slavery: "our folks" -- Slave culture: "honest and fair service to the Lord and all mankind everywhere" -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes

Target audience

adult

Classification