Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
Kansas Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during 1936-1938
"These life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators' words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect source material, . . . The narratives belong to folk history—history recovered from the memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses,” This is Volume Six, comprising 3 narratives, for the state of Kansas, in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson
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| Clayton Holbert | 11:17 | Read by Donald Warren | |
| Bill Simms | 11:38 | Read by Donald Warren | |
| Belle Williams | 7:16 | Read by Donald Warren |
Reviews
well read, interesting
Harry R
All three narratives in this short volume are read by the same volunteer. His voice is clear and his accent one of the regular white ones. One interviewee does mention two freed women being recaptured (abducted) by slave traders and sold again! Otherwise experiences of the ex-slaves in them were all relatively good.
grace jacob
Removing the veil of the imagined world of people enslaving other people to the reality and the various nuances