Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember, an Oral History - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0802138683 ISBN 13: 9780802138682

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2002

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In an unflinching oral history, former slaves eloquently describe their experiences in captivity and portray the harsh conditions they faced in everyday life as slaves. Reprint.

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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 often beautifully cadenced." -- The New Yorker "A rich source of cultural information.... Eloquent and important." -- The New York Times

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0802138683
• ISBN 13: 9780802138682
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: Mellon James