Bullwhip Days: The Slaves RememberJames Mellon Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, 23 дек. 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 482 “Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that . . . lie at the root of today’s racism.” —Publishers Weekly In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are twenty-nine full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era. Skillfully edited, these chronicles bear eloquent witness to the trials of slaves in America, reveal the wide range of conditions of human bondage, and provide sobering insight into the roots of racism in today’s society. “Remarkably articulate . . . vivid, moving, and beautifully cadenced.” —The New Yorker |
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... bout plantation a Mary mile of and a and great Grandison a man. half It from Tilly was was my ma and pa. Ma was cook up at de big house and she died when I was jus' a little gal. Pa was a field hand, and he belonged to Marse Britt Tilly ...
... bout plantation a Mary mile of and a and great Grandison a man. half It from Tilly was was my ma and pa. Ma was cook up at de big house and she died when I was jus' a little gal. Pa was a field hand, and he belonged to Marse Britt Tilly ...
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... bout, but he was all de time havin' dem big 'portant mens at his house talkin' 'bout de business what tuk him off from home so much. I used to see Lawyer Toombs dere heaps of times. He was a big, fine-lookin' man. Another big lawyer was ...
... bout, but he was all de time havin' dem big 'portant mens at his house talkin' 'bout de business what tuk him off from home so much. I used to see Lawyer Toombs dere heaps of times. He was a big, fine-lookin' man. Another big lawyer was ...
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... bout buryin ' ' em . None of Marse Alec's slaves never run away to no North , ' cause he was so good to ' em dey never wanted to leave him . De onliest nigger what left Marse Alec's place was Uncle Dave , and he wouldn't have left ...
... bout buryin ' ' em . None of Marse Alec's slaves never run away to no North , ' cause he was so good to ' em dey never wanted to leave him . De onliest nigger what left Marse Alec's place was Uncle Dave , and he wouldn't have left ...
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... bout no Raw Head and Bloody Bones * or nothin ' lak dat . Dey used to skeer us chillun so bad ' bout dem sort of things dat us used to lay in bed at night a - shakin ' lak us was havin ' chills . I've seed plenty of ha'nts right here in ...
... bout no Raw Head and Bloody Bones * or nothin ' lak dat . Dey used to skeer us chillun so bad ' bout dem sort of things dat us used to lay in bed at night a - shakin ' lak us was havin ' chills . I've seed plenty of ha'nts right here in ...
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... bout leavin ' Marse Alec , but Sarah Ann and Aunt Mary , dey throwed down deir hoes and jus ' whooped and hollered ' cause dey was so glad . When dem Yankees come to our place , Mammy Mary axed ' em if dey warn't tired of war . “ What ...
... bout leavin ' Marse Alec , but Sarah Ann and Aunt Mary , dey throwed down deir hoes and jus ' whooped and hollered ' cause dey was so glad . When dem Yankees come to our place , Mammy Mary axed ' em if dey warn't tired of war . “ What ...
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Charley Williams | |
Plantation Life Poor White Folks Classes of Slaves Patrollers | |
Calvin Moye | |
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