Project Gutenberg 2011-05-02 Public domain in the USA. 1190 United States. Work Projects Administration Administration, Work Projects Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives Reading ease score: 88.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…," compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project, is a historical account prepared in the late 1930s. This work gathers first-hand accounts from former slaves in the United States, emphasizing their personal experiences and memories of life in bondage, particularly through interviews conducted in Alabama. The book provides a unique perspective on the complexities of slavery, featuring various narrators and their distinct stories, which reflect the spectrum of experiences among enslaved individuals. The opening of the narrative introduces several former slaves through a series of interviews, detailing their lives both before and after the Emancipation. Figures like Uncle Charlie Aarons recount their childhood memories of being sold, their experiences with masters, and the harsh realities of work and life on plantations. Other voices, like Aunt Molly Ammonds and Anthony Abercrombie, share glimpses of the community, traditions, and resilient spirits that characterized their lives. Each narrative snapshot portrays the personal history and emotions of individuals as they recount their struggles and survival during and after slavery, setting the stage for a profound reflection on a pivotal aspect of American history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Slave narratives -- Alabama Slavery -- Alabama African Americans -- Alabama -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Social conditions E300 Text Slavery Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American 873708 873041 2024-10-15T10:04:42.849991 2023-09-16T03:35:01.907230 text/html text/html 861841 2011-05-02T20:35:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 4851833 2011-05-02T20:35:02 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 5255835 2024-10-15T10:05:25.426802 application/epub+zip 5423997 2024-10-15T10:05:20.794814 application/pdf 851851 2024-10-15T10:04:53.959981 application/pdf 5261577 2024-10-15T10:05:00.759890 application/epub+zip 547995 2024-10-15T10:04:49.311960 application/epub+zip 5635875 2024-10-15T10:05:37.381742 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 5514728 2024-10-15T10:05:15.966864 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 577477 2022-09-16T12:57:57.740890 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 733300 2024-10-15T10:04:41.574008 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 733617 2011-05-02T20:37:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 283993 2011-05-02T20:37:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 704780 2011-05-02T20:38:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 279483 2011-05-02T20:38:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 704778 2011-05-02T20:38:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 279471 2011-05-02T20:38:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 28870 2024-10-15T10:05:37.571723 application/rdf+xml 715420 715414 2024-10-15T10:04:38.820002 2023-09-16T03:35:00.801212 text/x-rst text/x-rst 715416 2011-05-02T20:35:36 text/x-rst 4835960 2011-05-02T20:35:36 text/x-rst application/zip 29106 2024-10-15T10:04:56.251917 image/jpeg 5176 2024-10-15T10:04:55.164933 image/jpeg 4984534 2024-10-15T10:04:43.074005 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia