Author: GATES, HENRY LOUIS (FOREWORD BY)
Title: Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives
Description: Boston, Bullfinch Press. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0821228420). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volmue of 160 pages. 60 black and white duotone photographs.The book is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives and photographs drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930's by the government's Works Progress Administration. From slave auctions to emancipation, the narratives trace the extraordinary experiences of life in perhaps the darkest period of America's history. Readers will shudder at the vivid accounts - told in the dialect of the former slaves - of the painstaking labor and abuse to which slaves were subjected, and the slave weddings, and other special occasions. y will be moved by the recollections of family life, 1. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: American History, Slavery 0821228420


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