Georgia Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557090130 ISBN 13: 9781557090133

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Georgia Slave Narratives The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progres... Full description

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Product Description:

Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.

About the Author:

Applewood Books, publishers of America's living past, was founded in 1976. Since then, the company has published over 5,000 works, of which they've sold many millions of individual copies. Applewood's mission is to build a picture of America and American culture through primary sources. Among Applewood's best-selling titles are the "Books of American Wisdom" which include reprints of important American documents, essays, speeches, and poems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1557090130
• ISBN 13: 9781557090133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172