Download or read book American Slave Interviews Volume III Florida Narratives written by Federal Writers Project and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Slave Interviews. American Slaves tell their Stories. Real Tales of American Slaves. From Interviews with 65 Former US Slaves from Florida. Sample: On the Hall plantation there was a contraption, similar to a gallows, where the slaves were suspended and whipped. At the top of this device were blocks of wood with chains run through holes and high enough that a slave when tied to the chains by his fingers would barely touch the ground with his toes. This was done so that the slave could not shout or twist his body while being whipped. The whipping was prolonged until the body of the slave covered with welts and blood trickled down his naked body. Women were treated in the same manner, and a pregnant woman received no more leniency than did a man. Very often after a severe flogging a slave's body was treated to a bath of water containing salt and pepper so that the pain would be more lasting and aggravated. The whipping was done with sticks and a whip called the "cat o' nine tails," meaning every lick meant nine. The "cat o' nine tails" was a whip of nine straps attached to a stick; the straps were perforated so that everywhere the hole in the strap fell on the flesh a blister was left. Typewritten records prepared by the THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938. Assembled by the Library of Congress Project. Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress Illustrated with Photographs originally published WASHINGTON 1941
Download or read book Florida Slave Narratives written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.
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Download or read book Florida Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves written by Works Progress Administration and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florida Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
Download or read book Slave Narratives a Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Volume 3 Florida Narratives written by Work Projects Administration and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Slave Interviews Volume Ll Parts 3 and 4 Arkansas Narratives written by Federal Writers Project and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Studies. Slavery in America. From Interviews with 195 Former US Slaves. "Once on the Blackshear place, they took all the fine looking boys and girls that was thirteen years old or older and put them in a big barn after they had stripped them naked and leave them there until Monday morning. Out of that came sixty babies. "They was too many babies to leave in the quarters for some one to take care of during the day. They built a long old trough like a great long old cradle and put all these babies in it every morning. "When they were at the other end of the row, all at once a cloud no bigger than a small spot came up, and it grew fast, and it thundered and lightened and the rain just came down in great sheets. And when it got so they could go to the other end of the field, that trough was filled with water and every baby in it was floating 'round in the water drownded. Typewritten records prepared by the THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938. Assembled by the Library of Congress Project. Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress. Originally published WASHINGTON 1941
Download or read book Florida Slave Narratives written by Federal Writers' Project and published by North American Book Dist LLC. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcriptions of first-person accounts of slavery by former slaves, collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Download or read book Slave Narratives written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Slave Narratives" (A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. From Interviews with Former Slaves / Florida Narratives) by United States. Work Projects Administration. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Remembering Slavery written by Marc Favreau and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Download or read book American Slave Interviews Volume IV Georgia Narratives Parts 3 And 4 written by Federal Writers Project and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with Former US Slaves. Sample: 'The treatment on some of the other plantations was so severe that slaves often ran away, Jennie Kendricks told of one man who was "being" crossed out (lashed) and who ran away but was finally caught. When his master brought him back he was locked in a room until he could be punished. When the master finally came to administer the whipping, Lash had cut his own throat in a last effort to secure his freedom. He was not successful; his life was saved by quick action on the part of his master. Sometime later after rough handling Lash finally killed his master and was burned at the stake for this crime'. Typewritten records prepared by the THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938. Assembled by the Library of Congress Project. Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress. Originally published WASHINGTON 1941
Download or read book The Florida Slave written by Stetson Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and activist Stetson Kennedy was born in Jacksonville, Florida in1916 and he died there in 2011. This book was the last project he completed. Kennedy was a human rights activist, and author of many books on Florida history and culture. He was head of the Florida Writers Project unit on folklore, oral history, and socio-ethnic studies between 1937 and 1942, resulting in the classic book Palmetto Country. Following World War II, Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, an experience he detailed in the book The Klan Unmasked. In this newly compiled and edited work, Stetson Kennedy offers a fresh perspective on this collection of Florida slave narratives and their relevance to contemporary society.
Download or read book Memories of the Enslaved written by Spencer R. Crew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement. Today's students understandably have a hard time imagining what life for slaves more than 150 years ago was like. The best way to communicate what slaves experienced is to hear their words directly. The material in this concise single-volume work illuminates the lives of the last living generation of enslaved people in the United States—former slaves who were interviewed about their experiences in the 1930s. Based on more than 2,000 interviews, the transcriptions of these priceless interviews offer primary sources that tell a diverse and powerful picture of life under slavery. The book explores seven key topics—childhood, marriage, women, work, emancipation, runaways, and family. Through the examination of these subject areas, the interviews reveal the harsh realities of being a slave, such as how slave women were at the complete mercy of the men who operated the places where they lived, how nearly every enslaved person suffered a beating at some point in their lives, how enslaved families commonly lost relatives through sale, and how enslaved children were taken from their parents to care for the children of slaveholders. The thematic organizational format allows readers to easily access numerous excerpts about a specific topic quickly and enables comparisons between individuals in different locations or with different slaveholders to identify the commonalities and unique characteristics within the system of slavery.
Download or read book American Slave Interviews Volume I Alabama Narratives written by Federal Writers Project and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery in America - True Stories. American Slave Interviews - Volume I: Alabama Narratives From Interviews with 129 Former US Slaves. Typewritten records prepared by the THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938. Assembled by the Library of Congress Project. Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress Illustrated with Photographs originally published WASHINGTON 1941
Download or read book American Slave Interviews Volume VIII Maryland Narratives written by Federal Writers Project and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Studies - American Slavery From Interviews with Former US Slaves from Maryland. Sample: "My master's name was Thomas Mason, he was a man of weak mental disposition, his mother managed the affairs. He was kind. Mrs. Mason had a good disposition, she never permitted the slaves to be punished. The main house was very large with porches on three sides. No children, no overseer. "The poor white people in Charles County were worse off than the slaves; because they could not get any work to do, on the plantation, the slaves did all the work. "Some time ago you asked did I ever see slaves sold. I have seen slaves tied behind buggies going to Washington and some to Baltimore. "No one was taught to read. We were taught the Lord's Prayer and catechism. Typewritten records prepared by the THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938. Assembled by the Library of Congress Project. Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Sponsored by the Library of Congress. Originally published WASHINGTON 1941
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