Slavery Remembered : A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

by Escott, Paul D.

• ISBN13: 9780807813409
• ISBN10: 0807813400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1979-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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. Slavery remembered is an important contribution to the study of American slavery and, because of its brevity and clarity, an ideal classroom text for American history surveys as well as more specialized courses.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction The Narratives as a Source	p. 3
Two Peoples and Two Worlds	p. 18
Conditions of Life: The Slaves' Experiences on the Plantation	p. 36
Improving the Conditions of Life: Forms of Slave Resistance	p. 71
Bases of a Black Culture	p. 95
Seeing How the Land Lay in Freedom	p. 119
Starting Uphill, Den Going Back	p. 143
Life Patterns of the Freedom Generation	p. 159
Afterword	p. 177
Methods of Recording and Coding Information	p. 183
Race of Interviewers	p. 188
Additional Tables	p. 192
New Narratives	p. 195
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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