The real deal raw and uncut

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	• South Carolina Slave Narratives Applewood Books, 2006 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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The real deal raw and uncut

Oftentimes when the WPA slave narratives are put in paperback form for the masses, we get watered down, heavily edited, politically correct versions. Here we have the real, raw and uncut stuff-the SC slave narratives exactly as they were written in 1937. This book only contains a small amount of the narratives from SC, but it is good and powerful, especially Augustus Ladson's interview with ex-slave Henry Brown (since Ladson was one of the few Black interviewers, the ex-slaves tend to be a bit more frank in their recollections with him-compare this to Henry Brown's interview with a white female interviewee earlier in the book).

But overall, this series is the best of the slave narrative paperbacks that are currently on the market. If you want to hear history directly from those who expereinced it, get this!

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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 Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the "peculiar institution," to describe in their own words what it felt like to be a slave in the United States. -Norman R. Yetman, American Memory, Library of Congress This paperback edition of selected South Carolina narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

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