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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

Original recordings, made by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, remastered using state-of-the-art equipment.

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  • "Original recordings, made by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, remastered using state-of-the-art equipment."@en
  • "Includes two sixty-minute audiotapes that include: original live recordings of interviews with former slaves; dramatic readings by celebrities from written interviews. Hardcover book includes chapters on aspects of slave life, including relationships with owners, work, family culture, the Civil War, and emancipation, complete transcripts of the live recordings, additional interviews with former slaves and little-known period photographs."@en
  • ""In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration dispatched writers all over America to interview the last remaining black witnesses to slavery. ... Historian Ira Berlin guides readers through the stories and provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of American slavery."--Inside jacket."@en
  • "Draws on archival recordings to document the lives of slaves and their adjustment to freedom."
  • "Draws on archival recordings to document the lives of slaves and their adjustment to freedom."@en
  • "A Best Book of the Year". Library Journal and Booklist. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this collection."@en
  • "Dramatic readings by Debbie Allen, Clifton Davis, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Earl Jones, Jedda Jones, Melba Moore, and Esther Rolle."@en

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  • "Biography"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Sources"@en
  • "Interviews"
  • "Interviews"@en

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