Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves

Perdue Jr., Charles L.; Barden, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 0813913705 / ISBN 13: 9780813913704

Published by University of Virginia Press, 1991

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AS NEW SOFTCOVER. Stirring stories of how black Americans survived slavery.

Seller Inventory # L6510

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813913705
• ISBN 13: 9780813913704
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • African American History
  • Virginia History

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Charles L. Perdue Jr., Associate Professor of Folklore and Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the editor of Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia. Thomas E. Barden, Professor of English at Toledo University, is the author of The Travles of Peter Woodhouse: Memoir of an American Pioneer and editor of Virginia Folk Legends (Virginia). Robert K. Phillips is Professor of English at Lander College, Greenwood, South Carolina.