River of Blood : : American Slavery From the People who Lived it : Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans / Edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; Foreword by Adam Green.
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Slavery and identity -- Day to day -- Trauma that lasts forever -- War and freedom -- The pain of Reconstruction -- Once a slave.
"In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping? The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as the Slave Narratives. This book highlights those narratives--condensing tens of thousands of pages into short excerpts from about 100 former slaves and pairs their accounts with their photographs, taken by the workers sent to record their stories." --Amazon.com.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Photographic history submitted by 21621032124198 on August 1, 2023, 7:53am This book is a photographic diary of some former American slaves. The photos and statements are moving, disturbing, honest. I appreciated seeing each speaker next to his or her words, but I can't tell if the words are excerpts or complete diary entries. Reading that life in the years after slavery wasn't necessarily better or easier than during slavery, was disappointing. I wish there were more photos and more statements (in full).
PUBLISHED
Chicago, Illinois : CityFiles Press, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 240 pages : photographs ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780991541850
0991541855
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Cahan, Richard,
Williams, Michael,
Green, Adam,
SUBJECTS
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Enslaved people -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Interviews.