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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation
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This set contains: two sixty-minute audiotapes that include original live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings by celebrities from written interviews; and, a hardcover ...
This set contains: two sixty-minute audiotapes that include original live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings by celebrities from written interviews; and, a hardcover book that includes a comprehensive introductory essay by preeminent slavery historian Ira Berlin, chapters on aspects of slave life, including relationships with owners, work, family culture, the Civil War, and Emancipation; complete transcript of the live recordings and dramatic readings of interviews with former slaves, contained on the companion tapes; extensive additional interviews with former slaves; little-known period photographs, including some of the former slaves interviewed on the companion tapes.
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- Creator
- edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : New Press ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1998
- Physical Details
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- lii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 2 audiocassettes (analog)
- ISBNs
- 1565844254, 9781565844254, 1565845870, 9781565845879
- OCLC
- ocm39925888
- Includes live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings from written interviews.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index.
- Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life: "from can to can't" -- Family life in slavery: "our folks" -- Slave culture: "honest and fair service to the Lord and all mankind everywhere" -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes : 1. "Remembering Slavery": the radio documentary -- 2. Recordings of slave narratives and related materials in the Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress
Subjects
- Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Interviews.
- Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources.
- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources.
- Freed persons -- United States -- Interviews.
- Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
- Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- History.
- Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Interviews.
- African Americans -- Biography.
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