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Cotter Bass ECHOES of SLAVERY - Volume I

FORMER SLAVES SHARE THEIR FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS OF LIFE IN BONDAGE.

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During the Depression years between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent out-of-work writers in seventeen states to interview ordinary people in order to document their life stories. Initially, only four states involved in the project (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia) focused on collecting the stories of people who had once been held in slavery. In 1937 the WPA directed the remaining states involved in the project to conduct interviews with former slaves as well. Federal field workers were given instructions regarding the kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects, the result of which may occasionally be offensive to contemporary readers. The field workers often visited the people they interviewed twice in order to gather as many recollections as possible. Sometimes they took photographs of the informants and their dwellings. The completed narratives were then turned over to their state's FWP director for editing and eventual transfer to Washington, D.C. The former slave narratives presented in ECHOES of SLAVERY - Volume I represent a small segment of more than two thousand first-person accounts of actual slave experiences, transcribed in their own words by the FWP and recorded for posterity. These first-person testimonials open a window into the past, enabling contemporary readers a rare opportunity to share the trials, fears, frustrations, hopes, and visions of those individuals caught up in the maelstrom that was 1800’s America. Walk alongside these resolute men and women in Volume I of ECHOES of SLAVERY as they portray the real world in which they struggled and endured. Experience the harsh and often brutal reality of slavery as it really was! [more]

Keywords: slavery, bondage, south, negro, Master, beatings, plantation, cotton, 1800’s, slave, colored, whuppin, antebellum, KKK, Patrolers, Patrollers

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Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle Diddie, Dumps & Tot

or, Plantation child-life

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Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (June 19, 1850 – August 26, 1907) was an Alabama writer.[1] Her works drew heavily [more]

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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips American Negro Slavery (fiscle part-XIV)

A Survey Of The Supply, Employment And Control Of Negro Labor As Determined by The Plantation Regime

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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (November 4, 1877 – January 21, 1934) was an American historian who largely defined the [more]

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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips American Negro Slavery (fiscle part-XIV)

A Survey Of The Supply, Employment And Control Of Negro Labor As Determined by The Plantation Regime

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Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (November 4, 1877 – January 21, 1934) was an American historian who largely defined the [more]

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Thomas A. Wise A Gentleman from Mississippi

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That bids him flout the law he makes; That bids him make the law he flouts. _--Kipling_. In buoyant [more]

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William Gilmore Simms The Life of Francis Marion

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William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the [more]

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William Gilmore Simms Charlemont

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William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the [more]

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T. S. Arthur Off-Hand Sketches

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Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T.S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America. [more]

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T. S. Arthur Home Scenes, And Home Influence

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Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T.S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America. [more]

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T.S. Arthur The Lights And Shadows Of Real Life

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Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T.S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era, and he published and edited his own Arthur's Home Magazine, a periodical in the Godey's model, for many years. Virtually forgotten now, Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable, decorous middle-class life in antebellum America. [more]

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