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16 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
16 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
Slave Narratives
- Part of
- Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
- Related Name
- Mintz, Steven
- Release
- Houston, Tex., © 2003
- Extent
- 85 pages (ca. 1.2 MiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 25, 2004.
- Language
- English
- Description
- A selection of excerpts from primary sources – predominantly, but not exclusively slave narratives –, ordered by topic and following the itinerary of African-American slaves from enslavement, the Middle Passage, and arrival in America through the experience of slave life during the antebellum period and the eventual abolition of slavery in the United States. Offers brief introductions to all topics as well as to the individual sources.
- Related Names
- Yetman, Norman R. (auth.) / Botkin, Benjamin A. (comp.)
- Related Inst.
- Library of Congress : Manuscript Division / Library of Congress : Prints and Photographs Division
- Part of
- American Memory / Library of Congress
- Release
- Washington, D. C., Mar 2001
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jun 17, 2003.
- Technical Notes
- Scanned page images (GIF and TIFF formats) of original typoscripts. Full text of the narratives (obtained through OCR, recognition partially corrected) may be searched cannot be viewed. Search results may be incorrect or incomplete due to errors resulting from the OCR process and due to the inconsistent transcription of African-American dialect in the primary documents. — Only partially covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine (introductory material and indexes searchable).
- Notes
- Electronic reproduction of a 17-volume collection compiled shortly after the collection of the narratives (first published under the title 'Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.' Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1941). Also presents some 500 photographs, 40 percent of which are published here for the first time. – Narratives may be browsed by state, by narrator, and by volume of the original compilation.
- Language
- English
- Includes
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- Yetman, Norman R.: An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives
- Voices and Faces from the Collection
- Administrative sources documenting the history of the collection
- Description
- More than 2,000 interviews with surviving former slaves ranging in age from some 70 to more than 100 years. – Not all of the interviews collected by the State Writers' Projects were submitted to the coordinators at the Library of Congress, some evidence suggesting systematic tampering. (See the introduction by Ken Lawrence to Mississippi interviews not included in the 'Born in Slavery' collection, first published in 1977.) – See also the reviews of 'Born in Slavery' by Gayla Koerting and by Claus K. Meyer available at the Public History Resource Center.
- Part of
- Reviews of Public History Web Sites, V. 8 / Public History Resource Center
- Related Names
- DeRuyver, Debra (managing ed.) / Evans, Jennifer (managing ed.)
- Release
- Greenbelt, Md., Aug 2003
- Extent
- 1 page/frame (ca. 88 KiB) : 3 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Nov 3, 2003.
- Language
- English
- Part of
- Reviews of Public History Web Sites, V. 8 / Public History Resource Center
- Related Names
- DeRuyver, Debra (managing ed.) / Evans, Jennifer (managing ed.)
- Release
- Greenbelt, Md., Aug 2003
- Extent
- 1 page/frame (ca. 76 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Nov 3, 2003.
- Language
- English
- Related Names
- Beckle, Hilary Macdonald (taskforce member) et al.
- Related Inst.
-
Anti-Slavery International
The British Council - Release
- Paris, n. d. [last revised 2004] (UNESCO)
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jul 9, 2003.
- Technical Notes
- The site replaces an older version at http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/asp/tst/index.htm still online and reported by search engines. — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.
- Notes
- In close cooperation with The Slave Route Project of UNESCO's Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace. – See also the educational resource Breaking the Silence produced by Anti-Slavery International within the framework of the TST project.
- Language
- English | French (project description)
- Includes
- Description
- Project launched in 1998 to promote the commemoration and teaching of the transatlantic slave trade and to create intercultural networks of schools across the areas which were immediately affected by the trade. Targets secondary school students 14 to 16 years of age. Organizes symposia and workshops, youth encounters. Provides participating schools with educational resources, published brochures, flyers, and annual posters for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23 August). — Note that an Indian Ocean Slave Trade Education Project is currently under preparation.
- Part of
- Anthurium. A Caribbean Studies Journal, vol. 2, no. 1 / University of Miami : Department of English
- Release
- Coral Gables, Fla., spring 2004
- Extent
- 1 page (ca. 82 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Sep 29, 2006.
- Notes
- Includes notes and list of works cited.
- Language
- English
- Description
- "Nicole N. Aljoe completed the Ph.D. in English at Tufts University (2004) and will be an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah in Fall 2004."
- Related Names
- Rawick, George P. / Hillegas, Jan
- Part of
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography / Greenwood Publishing : Greenwood Electronic Media
- Release
- Westport, Conn., © 2002
- Extent
- 9 pages (ca. 130 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 4, 2004.
- Notes
- Originally published in The American slave: A composite autobiography. Supplement, series 1, ed. George P. Rawick, Jan Hillegas, and Ken Lawrence (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, 1977), vol. 6.1, p. lxix-cx. – Includes notes.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Editor's introduction to interviews collected under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project in Mississippi in the late 1930s. The Mississippi editors did not submit the interviews in this edition to the coordinators of the project at the Library of Congress at that time. (For the material at the Library of Congress, see Born in Slavery.) Lawrence argues that this editorial choice must be seen as a conscious attempt at manipulating the historical record of slavery in the state.
- Part of
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives From the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 / Library of Congress
- Related Inst.
-
Library of Congress : Manuscript Division
Library of Congress : Prints and Photographs Division - Release
- Washington, D. C., Mar 2001
- Extent
- 21 pages (ca. 120 KiB) : 17 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jun 17, 2003.
- Language
- English
- Description
- The fully documented essay accompanies an electronic edition of interviews with surviving exslaves collected in the 1930s. It provides a detailed introduction to the collection, its historical context, its strength and weaknesses, and its role in the historiography of slavery. –The author is a professor of American studies and sociology at the University of Kansas.
- Part of
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography / Greenwood Publishing : Greenwood Electronic Media
- Release
- Westport, Conn., © 2002
- Extent
- 1 PDF file (ca. 370 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 4, 2004.
- Notes
- Originally published in George P. Rawick (general ed.), The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1972). – Includes notes.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Part of freely accessible introductory material to a subscription site offering a comprehensive edition of the exslave narratives that the Federal Writers' Project collected in the late 1930s. Rawick's essay refers to the narratives deposited with the Library of Congress, which are available at the site Born in Slavery.
- Part of
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography / Greenwood Publishing : Greenwood Electronic Media
- Release
- Westport, Conn., © 2002
- Extent
- 1 PDF file (ca. 1 MiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 4, 2004.
- Notes
- Originally published as chap. 1 of George P. Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup. The Making of the Black Community, vol. 1 of The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1972), p. 3-13. – Includes notes.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Part of freely accessible introductory material to a subscription site offering a comprehensive edition of the exslave narratives that the Federal Writers' Project collected in the late 1930s. Rawick's essay develops the basic framework for his analysis of the narratives deposited with the Library of Congress and available at the site Born in Slavery.
- Part of
- Documenting the American South, Beginnings to 1920 / The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : Academic Affairs Library
- Release
- Chapel Hill, N. C., © 1998
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Technical Notes
- Texts in HTML and SGML, graphic materials in TIFF, JPEG, and GIF formats.
- Notes
- Ongoing project nearing completion. All texts available on the internet, correction of OCR results or SGML coding incomplete in a few cases. — Includes author, title, and subject indexes as well as a
- Description
- The collection makes available "all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920." The project also includes fictional or fictionalized slave narratives published in the 19th century.
- Release
- Hartsville, S. C., taught term III 2004 (Coker College : Department of Language and Literature)
- Extent
- 3 pages (ca. 58 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 26, 2004.
- Language
- English
- Related Inst.
- Temple University
- Part of
- Syllabus Project / American Academy of Religion
- Release
- Atlanta, Ga., course taught spring 1998
- Extent
- 1 PDF doc. (ca. 118 KiB = 9 print pages)
- Last Visit
- Apr 26, 2004.
- Language
- English
- Part of
- Digital History. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research / University of Houston : Department of History, and University of Houston : College of Education
- Related Name
- Mintz, Steven
- Release
- Houston, Tex., © 2003
- Extent
- 5 pages (ca. 270 KiB)
- Last Visit
- Apr 24, 2004.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Bibliography of secondary works organized by type of publication, geographical area, and topic. Two special listings dedicated to slavery in the United States and to slave narratives, their interpretation and criticism. – The most extensive general bibliography available online.
- Release
- [Chatham, N. J.], n. d. [start page stamped Aug 2003]
- Extent
- ca. 200 pages (ca. 10 MiB) : more than 75 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Apr 26, 2004.
- Language
- English
- Includes
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- 11 historical essays (ranging from a general overview of slavery in American history to pieces with special aspects of the institution and its heritage)
- 14 history and 7 American literature lesson plans
- Images of the transatlantic and U. S. domestic slave trade (more than 20 items)
- 12 images inspired by slave narratives, created by Mississippian artist Johnnie Mae Maberry-Gilbert
- Gateway to internet resources
- Description
- Site created in the framework of an educational initiative of New York Life Insurance Co., which is also sponsoring a 4-part TV series on the history of American slavery. Provides resources for teaching slavery to middle and high-school students. – No information about the creators and maintainers of the site is available. While the authors of essays and lesson plans are identified by name and in part by institutional affiliation, the criteria for the selection of the material remain unclear. Contributors are paid. – The site includes an Encyclopedia of American Slavery with some 500 brief entries, but the editors, editorial plan and policy, and the contributors are not indicated. – Citations of the sources for some of the primary material are missing. — New York Life is one of several companies that have (thus far unsuccessfully) been sued for compensation by descendants of antebellum slaves. For more information, consult the Slave Era Insurance Registry (California Department of Insurance), the Business & Human Rights Resource Center, and news coverage. The site claims to be endorsed by the National Alliance of Black School Educators.
- Related Inst.
- Library of Congress : American Folklife Center
- Part of
- American Memory / Library of Congress
- Release
- Washington, D. C., Jan 2004
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Technical Notes
- Sound recordings available in Real Player and MP 3 formats. — Only partially covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine (introductory material and indexes searchable). — Originally at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/.
- Notes
- Recordings accompanied by transcriptions. Includes search of bibliogr. records and full text. Site may be browsed by –] name, subject, and places.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- Testimony of 23 slaves from 9 Southern states collected between 1932 and 1975. The recordings have a combined length of more than 7 hours. The site makes all recordings of interviews with former slaves at the American Folklife Center available online.
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