Kentucky Slave Narratives

Company

Library of Congress

Price

$14.95

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Official Store

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. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with…