Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

by Paul D. Escott

Book Overview

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Paul Escott's sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narratives and his quantitative analysis of the narratives as a whole eloquently present the differing beliefs and experiences of masters and slaves. The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807813435
• ISBN13: 9780807813430
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"