Remembering Slavery - African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery

Zusatztext "This project will enrich every American home and classroom." ? Publishers Weekly "As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country." ? The Boston Globe "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature." ? The Washington Post Book World "Ira Berlin’s fifty-page introduction is as good a synthesis of current scholarship as one will find! with fresh insights for any reader." ? The San Diego Union-Tribune "Invaluable." ? Chicago Tribune Klappentext The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos. Zusammenfassung In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery , a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, the astonishing audiotapes made available the only known recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement—recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were rendered audible for the first time specifically for this set. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide critical and review coverage as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America , Nightline , CBS Sunday Morning , and CNN. Reviewers called the set “chilling … [and] riveting” ( Publishers Weekly ) and “something, truly, truly new” ( The Village Voice ). Now the groundbreaking book component of the set is available for a new generation of readers. ...

Product details

• Authors: IRA Berlin, Ira Favreau Miller Berlin, Marc Favreau, Miller, Marc Miller Favreau
• Assisted by: IRA Berlin (Editor), Marc Favreau (Editor), Steven F. Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781565845879
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-587-9
• No. of pages: 410
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General