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  • History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee Through the Civil War

    by William Mack Lee ...
    Was William Mack Lee an imposter who lied about being General Lee's former slave in order to gain favor, or did he really proudly serve as General Lee's cook and servant during the Civil War?According to his own account, William Mack Lee (1835-1932) was born in Westmoreland County, Va. He was raised at Arlington Heights, in the house of General Robert E. Lee. He was cook for General Lee during the ... Read more

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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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  • 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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  • Slave Narratives: Maryland

    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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  • Slave Narratives: Kansas

    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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  • Georgia Slave Narratives

    by Work Projects Administration ...
    Series series Slave Narratives Series
    This book contains the complete collection of all 186 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Georgia at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Slave Narratives: South Carolina (all 4 parts)

    by Library of Congress ...
    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. 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 Missouri. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama ... Read more

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  • Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina

    Edited by Belinda Hurmence ...
    During the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians but few others. From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen twenty-seven ... Read more

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  • My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina

    Edited by Belinda Hurmence ...
    Former slaves themselves—an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in thousands of remarkable interviews sponsored by the Federal Writers’ Project during the 1930s. More than 170 interviews were conducted in North Carolina. ... Read more

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