Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

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book series historical document oral history collection

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives collection	1
Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project	1
WPA Slave Narratives	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book series ⓘ historical document ⓘ oral history collection ⓘ
aim	preserve memories of former slaves ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ surface form: Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ surface form: WPA Slave Narratives
archivedAt	Library of Congress ⓘ
associatedWithProgram	Federal Writers’ Project ⓘ surface form: Federal Writers' Project Slave Narrative Collection
basedOn	interviews with formerly enslaved people ⓘ
citationForm	Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves self-link ⓘ
compiledBy	Federal Writers’ Project ⓘ surface form: Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration ⓘ
compiledInPeriod	1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ
contains	first-person accounts of slavery ⓘ interview transcripts ⓘ photographs of interviewees ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
digitalAvailability	available online via Library of Congress ⓘ
documentationMethod	audio recordings (in some cases) ⓘ field notes ⓘ typed transcripts ⓘ
editorialNote	reflects interviewers' biases and dialect rendering ⓘ
format	multi-volume printed series ⓘ
genre	oral history ⓘ slave narrative ⓘ
hasPart	state-by-state volumes ⓘ
historicalPeriodDescribed	American Civil War ⓘ Reconstruction era ⓘ antebellum South ⓘ
interviewees	formerly enslaved African Americans ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mainSubject	African American history ⓘ oral testimony ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ
numberOfVolumes	multiple volumes ⓘ
publisher	Government Printing Office ⓘ surface form: United States Government Printing Office
regardedAs	major primary source on American slavery ⓘ
scope	border states ⓘ Southern United States ⓘ surface form: southern United States
timeOfInterviews	1936–1938 ⓘ
usedIn	African American studies ⓘ historical research on slavery ⓘ oral history methodology studies ⓘ

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves → alsoKnownAs → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ

this entity surface form: WPA Slave Narratives

this entity surface form: Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writers' Project

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves → citationForm → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves self-link ⓘ

Federal Writers’ Project → notableOutput → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ

Henry Alsberg → notableProject → Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves ⓘ

this entity surface form: Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives collection