Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 089587069X ISBN 13: 9780895870698

Casa editrice: Blair, 1989

Riassunto

During the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians but few others. From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen twenty-seven narratives from the twelve hundred typewritten pages of interviews with 284 former South Carolina slaves. The result is a moving, eloquent, and often surprising firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom. The former slaves describe the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the houses they lived in, the work they did, and the treatment they received. They give their impressions of Yankee soldiers, the Klan, their masters, and their newfound freedom.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 <i>Tough Tiffany</i> (an ALA Notable Book), <i>A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), and <i>The Nightwalker</i>. She has also edited <i>My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery</i> and <i>We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard</i>, companion volumes to this book. She now lives in Raleigh, NC.</i>

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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 <i>Tough Tiffany</i> (an ALA Notable Book), <i>A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents' Choice Award), and <i>The Nightwalker</i>. She has also edited <i>My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery</i> and <i>We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard</i>, companion volumes to this book. She now lives in Raleigh, NC.</i>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blair
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 089587069X
• ISBN 13: 9780895870698
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 135
• Redattore: Hurmence Belinda
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile