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Generations of Americans battled over slavery and the Constitution—with each side laying claim to the onstitution’s text and history. These battles culminated in some of the biggest constitutional debates in American history (over the onstitution’s meaning and its relation to slavery), important national compromises (like the Missouri
Jun 26, 2024 · A Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesFrom Interviews with Former SlavesTYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT1936-1938 ASSEMBLED... Skip to main content Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books.
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Ad...
The published volumes containing edited slave narratives are arranged alphabetically by the state in which the interviews took place and thereunder by the surname of the informant. Administrative files for the project are bound at the beginning of Volume 1. These files detail the instructions and other information supplied to field workers as well ...
Other records relating to the ex-slave project are among the FWP files at the National Archives and Records Administration (Record Group 69.5.5) and are described in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, Vol. I. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995). Volumes 2-17 of The American...
Dec 28, 2023 · The records referenced in these pages highlight some of the records pertaining to slavery that are available at the National Archives. Information and records are arranged by government branch and record group.
timeline of slavery from the constitutional convention to the civil war 1787: Constitutional Convention delegates refused to recognize a “right” to “property in men,” leaving the question of slavery to Congress and the states.
The American Memory Today in History archives include the following related accounts: May 21, 1796: Reverdy Johnson and his role in the Dred Scott Case. September 3, 1838: Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery. March 9, 1841: Joseph Cinqué, leader of the Amistad mutiny. September 20, 1850: Congress abolishes the D.C. slave trade.
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The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-two interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.