Taken from the records of the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, these interviews with one-time Virginia slaves provide a clear window into what it was like to be enslaved in the antebellum American South.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Softcover. Edge wear. Reading crease to spine. Foxing to edges. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). Seller Inventory # 2502050020
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+++. No Jacket. First Paperback Edition. Originally published by The University Press of Virginia with ISBN0-8139-0396-6. xlv. Illustrations. Index. 405pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. These slave narratives were collected by the Virginia Writers' Project between 1936 and 1941 and are the only accounts of slave life to have been gathered by black interviewers. Soft Cover. Seller Inventory # 005839
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Simultaneous paperback. 405pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Very good with fading on the spine, short tears, and some spotting. Seller Inventory # 559055
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Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
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