Atlanta Journal-Constitution

‘Written by himself’: How slave narratives shaped modern Black literature

There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
WRAL

Raleigh woman discovers grandmother was a slave, wants to clear inaccuracies with her story

Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...
CNN

For Black Georgians, voting restrictions are more of the same. These slave narratives prove it

“Reading slave narratives, you’re experiencing the lives of people who are cut off from participation in their society, who did not have full citizenship. It allows us to view what society will be ...
The Root

How Many Slave Narratives Were There?

Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
insider.si.edu

How the slaves saw the Civil War : recollections of the war through the WPA slave narratives / Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
insider.si.edu

Unsung unheralded narratives of American slavery & abolition The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; foreword by series editor Kevin Young ; edited with an ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Foreword / Kevin Young -- Introduction / Michelle D. Commander -- SLAVE REBELLION AND INSURRECTION. David Horsmanden, from The New-York ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

State's slave narratives included in collection

What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...
JSTOR Daily

Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Preface: Black Feminist Orality: Identifying a Tradition Preface: Black ...
The Washington Post

On 'Slave Narratives,' Voice-Witnesses to History

Black History Month has become a marketing ploy, a way for entertainment publicists to plug African American clients, a quick and easy way to segregate the telling of what is American history into 28 ...
Christianity Today

Olaudah Equiano’s Argument Against Slavery Was His Life Experience

The Igbo writer wrote honestly about the brutality of his experience—and of the Christian faith that sustained him. The word of God was sweet to my taste, yea sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

State's slave narratives included in collection

What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...