Slavery remembered : a record of twentieth-century slave narratives /
"Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the diffe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1979]
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| Series: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life, including diet, physical treatment, working conditions, housing, forms of resistance, and black overseers; slave cultural institutions; status distinctions among slaves; experiences during the Civil War and Reconstruction; and the subsequent life histories of the former slaves."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index. |