Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Horace Randall Williams (Editor)Series:Real Voices, Real History SeriesPublish date:2004-02-01Pages:191
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9780895872845ISBN-10:895872846UPC:9780895872845Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCJTZ5W1AF
Weren't No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama
From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and researchers to interview as many former slaves as they could find and document their lives during slavery. More than 2,000 former slaves in 17 states were interviewed. With Weren't No Good Times, John F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real...
Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9780895872845ISBN-10:895872846UPC:9780895872845Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 4.90 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCJTZ5W1AF
Horace Randall Williams describes himself as "among the last of Alabamians - black or white - who have memories of picking cotton by hand not for a few minutes to see how it felt but because I needed the few dollars I would get for a day's hard labor under a hot sun," an experience he says helped him recognize the cadences and dialect in the slave narratives. An Alabama native, he has researched...
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