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  • Portrait of America

    A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project

    by Jerrold Hirsch ...
    How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word “American”? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history — and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Although the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Such As Us

    Southern Voices of the Thirties

    Edited by Tom E. Terrill, Jerrold Hirsch ...
    When These Are Our Lives was first published by The University of North Carolina Press in 1939, the late Charles A. Beard hailed it as “literature more powerful than anything I have read in fiction, not excluding Zola’s most vehement passages.” A very early experiment in the publication of oral history, it consisted of thirty–five life histories of sharecroppers, farmers, mill workers, townspeople ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Bullwhip Days

    The Slaves Remember

    Edited by James Mellon ...
    "Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that . . . lie at the root of today's racism." — Publishers WeeklyIn the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable ... Read more

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  • Mules and Men

    by Zora Neale Hurston ...
    Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of *Mules and Men*features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

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  • Slave Narratives: Arkansas, all seven parts

    by Library of Congress ...
    Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and first published in 1941. As explained in the introduction: "The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of the ... Read more

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  • Like One of the Family

    Conversations from a Domestic's Life

    by Alice Childress ...
    Recommended by Entertainment WeeklyThe hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers—from a trailblazer in Black women’s literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane GayFirst published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Slave Narratives: Mississippi

    by Library of Congress ...
    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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  • The Voices From The Margins: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves

    Enriched edition. True Life Stories about the Life in Slavery and after the Liberation

    by Work Projects Administration, Camille Bishop ...
    The Voices From The Margins: Authentic Recorded Life Stories by Former Slaves is a groundbreaking collection of narratives documenting the experiences of former slaves in the United States. The book presents a raw and unfiltered look into the lives of individuals who were marginalized and oppressed, offering a unique perspective on American history. Through a combination of first-person accounts ... Read more

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  • All God's Dangers

    by Theodore Rosengarten ...
    Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    "A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were ... Read more

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  • Far More Terrible for Women

    Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery

    Edited by Patrick Minges ...
    De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I’s pay big money for you, and I’s done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I’s put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn’t want whippin’ at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks ‘bout Massa buyin’ me off de block and savin’ me from bein’ separated from my folks, and ‘bout bein’ whipped at de stake. Dere it am. What am I to do?So ... Read more

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  • Christopher Cricket on Cats - With Observations and Deductions for the Enlightenment of the Human Race from Infancy to Maturity and Even Old Age

    by Anthony Henderson Euwer ...
    ‘Christopher Cricket on Cats’ is a wonderful text, penned by Anthony Henderson Euwer (1877 – 1955). As the title suggests, it is a book of wisdom for both young and old. Euwer was an American Author, and feline fanatic, who dedicated this children’s story: To all the Cats that ever Meowed On this or any Sphere,– From the beginning of all Time Unto this Present Year. This charming verse is ... Read more

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