Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
- Synopsis
- Many years after the Civil War had ended, those survivors who had once been slaves were interviewed by a variety of scholars and researchers. Accounts of many of those interviews were set down on paper, and some were tape-recorded. Those transcribed and taped interviews are collected in the Library of Congress, and in state archives and university manuscript collections.The two-part radio series, broadcast in the US on Public Radio International, consists of excerpts from many of these interviews
The book and tape package expands upon these taped interviews with many additional transcribed narratives. The programmes consist of first-person accounts by former slaves, including Fountain Hughes, whose grandfather belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Part 1 contains stories of slave auctions, life on the plantation, master-slave relationships, beatings and escapes. Part 2 includes accounts of the former slaves’ experiences during the Civil War, their first days of freedom, the captivity of life as sharecroppers, the Reconstruction, and their lives up to the time of the interview. The stories are told in their own voices on restored recordings and through dramatic readings of written interview transcripts.
The online version consists of five sections, each tied to a presentation from the radio series, an excerpt from the book, and photographs of former slaves. - Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 1998
- Year of production
- 1998
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- oral history; slavery; United States of America
Online availability
- URI
- http://rememberingslavery.si.edu/audio.html
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed
Distribution Formats
- Type
- Audio
- Format
- Cassette
- Price
- $16.95
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 120 minutes
- Year
- 2004
Production Company
Sponsor
Record Stats
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