My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0895870398 ISBN 13: 9780895870391

Casa editrice: Blair, 1984

Riassunto

Individuals discuss their experiences as slaves in North Carolina

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University. She has written several novels for young people, including Tough Tiffany (an ALA Notable Book), A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), Tancy (winner of a Golden Kite Award), and The Nightwalker.

She has also edited We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard and Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember, companion volumes to this book. She now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Product Description:

Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in thousands of remarkable interviews sponsored by the Federal Writer's Project during the 1930's. More than 2000 slave narratives are now housed in the Library of Congress. More than 170 interviews were conducted in North Carolina. Belinda Hurmence pored over each of the North Carolina narratives, compiling and editing 21 of the first-person accounts for this collection. These narratives, though artless in many ways, speak compellingly of the joys and sorrows, the hopes and dreams, of the countless people who endured human bondage in the land of the free.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blair
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0895870398
• ISBN 13: 9780895870391
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 103
• Redattore: Hurmence Belinda