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Slavery remembered : a record of twentieth-century slave narratives /

This is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives in the Federal Writers' Project. Escott read nearly 2,400 narratives to establish 81 categories of information for computer analysis. Tables presenting this data are set within a well-organized text that includes many quotations. S...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Escott, Paul D., 1947- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [1979]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover Page; Slavery Remembered; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Preface; Introduction: The Narratives as a Source; 1. Two Peoples and Two Worlds; 2. Conditions of Life: The Slaves' Experiences on the Plantation; 3. Improving the Conditions of Life: Forms of Slave Resistance; 4. Bases of a Black Culture; 5. "Seeing How the Land Lay" in Freedom; 6. "Starting Uphill, den Going Back"; 7. Life Patterns of the Freedom Generation; Afterword; Appendix A Methods of Recording and Coding Information; Appendix B Race of Interviewers; Appendix C Additional Tables; Appendix D New Narratives