Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Fo... Part 1/2
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Published 2022-09-12
Genre(s): Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Modern (19th C)
Read by: Penny Witt, docdlmartin, Lazz, KleioMilia, Ronell, lestat24, D.L. Blair, Quincy Minor, Carol Sutton, darman210, ABC123yuv, Jacqueline Tyler., Kevin Waters, Jerome Ware, Phil Chenevert, Margaret Lange, fshort, Kerry Adams, KHand, J. Damain, bkelle, Kaleb A. Suedfeld, Tanzania Ware, Inkell, Little Beetle, Eric Johnson, LaurieB, sierasimone, shanban0303, Aakarsh Garg, Matt Stiner, April6090, Allegra LittleCole in English
Cover design by TriciaG.
Parts:
Part 2 • Slave Narratives: a Folk History of S...
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Louisa Adams
00:11:15 - 02 - Ida Adkins
00:18:47 - 03 - Martha Allen
00:22:40 - 04 - Joseph Anderson
00:26:01 - 05 - Mary Anderson
00:39:40 - 06 - Cornelia Andrews
00:46:35 - 07 - Mary Anngady
01:02:50 - 08 - Jane Arrington
01:09:18 - 09 - Sarah Louis Augustus
01:21:08 - 10 - Charuty Austin
01:30:24 - 11 - Blound Baker
01:33:52 - 12 - Lizzie Baker
01:39:41 - 13 - Viney Baker
01:42:09 - 14 - Charlie Barbour
01:49:41 - 15 - Mary Barbour
01:55:44 - 16 - Alice Baugh
02:03:20 - 17 - John Beckwith
02:09:35 - 18 - John C. Bectom
02:20:25 - 19 - Laura Bell
02:27:20 - 20 - Emma Blalock
02:36:03 - 21 - David Blount
02:45:21 - 22 - Clay Bobbit
02:48:39 - 23 - Henry Bobbitt
02:58:01 - 24 - Herndon Bogan
03:03:17 - 25 - Andrew Boone
03:16:11 - 26 - W.L. Bost
03:32:10 - 27 - Mary Wallace Bowe
03:41:17 - 28 - Lucy Brown
03:44:06 - 29 - Midge Burnett
03:48:22 - 30 - Fanny Cannady
03:57:27 - 31 - Betty Cofer
04:15:39 - 32 - John Coggin
04:20:28 - 33 - Mandy Coverson
04:24:53 - 34 - Willie Cozart
04:32:50 - 35 - Hannah Crasson
04:45:30 - 36 - Julia Crenshaw
04:47:22 - 37 - Zeb Crowder
04:55:16 - 38 - Adeline Crump
05:00:38 - 39 - Bill Crump
05:06:33 - 40 - Charlie Crump
05:12:48 - 41 - Mattie Curtis
05:20:59 - 42 - Charles Lee Dalton
05:29:15 - 43 - John Daniels
05:32:39 - 44 - Harriet Ann Daves
05:38:27 - 45 - Jerry Davis
05:42:54 - 46 - W.S. Debnam
05:51:25 - 47 - Sarah Debro
06:04:48 - 48 - Charles W. Dickens
06:10:35 - 49 - Margaret E. Dickens
06:15:45 - 50 - Rev. Squire Dowd
06:24:12 - 51 - Fannie Dunn
06:30:27 - 52 - Jennylin Dunn
06:34:22 - 53 - Lucy Ann Dunn
06:42:39 - 54 - Tempie Herndon Durham
06:56:41 - 55 - George Eatman
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 one for the state of North Carolina. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
More information: librivox.org/slave-narratives-vol11-part1/
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All Comments (18)
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Thank you for uploading these interviews. The USA needs to hear these opinions on how things really were from the people who really knew
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Jeeziss. Some of the people reading these books are the last people that need to be reading rhese books. It's excruciating sometimes.
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Those stories are more powerful than any books written about it....
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Education is vital to intelligent thought, the lady saying slavery was good was ignorant. That's why they didn't want them to read. This happens everywhere, it's hard to enslave intelligent creatures. Including other animals.
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These stories are fascinating and an important part of history. They also portray the different ways slaves were treated depending on who their Master ways. It warms me to hear of those who were well treated. Also I’m glad these stories are told unedited and in the slave dialect. It adds to the authenticity.
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Whose idea was it for the atrocious depictions of how slaves sounded? Is it being asserted that the reader would not comprehend the narrative otherwise?Don't get me wrong, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the fact these stories are being told truthfully. However, it is lost upon me as to WHY some narrator s feel the need to read as if in a minstrel show in black face.😠
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Nice glad to hear this
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That little "Ida leigh" was a clever and brave girl to let those bees loose.
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ESPECIALLY the person who read section 16, as if we would not comprehend the story unless read that way....
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Volume 11? Where are the previous vols?
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2:110:00
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Nice. Directly from the font
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It's hard to listen to. About slaves being beaten and whipped for literally no reason. That whole practice should never happen. You can't do that to people no matter who they are. It is a shameful thing.
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Smh
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U would think that this would not be repeated but u just came from Dubai were this stuff is alive and well and way worse
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I sho nuff gwonna wurk hawd jus like da masser dun told me. Masser toll me to go to da licka sto and I sho nuff gwonna steal me a swig. If masser catch me stellan he go upside my nappy head sho nuff. I dun got me 5 chillen by da masser and his brudder. Day all gots red nappy hair just like masser and his greedy brudder.
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