Hi JP,

The slave narratives are on the Library of Congress American Memory website
at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html.

These narratives were discussed by the list in March 2007 - the
conversation can be found in the archives at
http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0703&L=VA-HIST#81. Jurretta
Heckscher's message on the first (
http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=VA-HIST&F=&S=&P=2641)
is particularly helpful.

As Juretta noted then, "[f]or a fuller discussion of the reasons why these
narratives cannot be taken at face value, vitally informative though they
can be with skillful interpretation, please see the introductory essay by
Norman Yetman (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro00.html),
particularly the sections on:

  "The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection: Problems of Memory" (
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro14.html)
  "The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection: Race and
Representativeness" (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro15.html)
  "Should the Slave Narrative Collection Be Used?" (
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro16.html)."


v/r,
Alexander Pyle
Ft Collins, Colorado



On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:43 PM, John Philip Adams <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Is this available?
> Is this the name of the book?
> Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
> 1936-1938
> JP Adams
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> Well, if you have ever reviewed Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
> Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, that contains more than 2,300
> first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of
> former slaves you were probably surprised at the level of nostalgia
> expressed repeatedly for the good life back on the master's land where they
> had a roof over their heads and food on the table and didn't have to work
> all that hard.  I found it to be a very illuminating project with first
> hand
> descriptions of the lives of slaves in the South.
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