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Henrich, Kristin J. "Sources: Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project." Reference & User Services Quarterly 54, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 85–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.54n2.85.

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Minifee, Paul A. "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938, digital archive, Library of Congress." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 267–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.33.2.267.

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Grant, Susan-Mary, and David Bowe. "“My Daddy…He Was a Good Man”: Gendered Genealogies and Memories of Enslaved Fatherhood in America’s Antebellum South." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020043.

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While the last few years have witnessed an upsurge of studies into enslaved motherhood in the antebellum American South, the role of the enslaved father remains largely trapped within a paradigm of enforced absenteeism from an unstable and insecure familial unit. The origins of this lie in the racist assumptions of the infamous “Moynihan Report” of 1965, read backwards into slavery itself. Consequently, the historiographical trajectory of work on enslaved men has drawn out the performative aspects of their masculinity in almost every area of their lives except that of fatherhood. This has produced an image of individualistic masculinity, separate from the familial role that many enslaved men managed to sustain and, as a result, productive of a disjointed and gendered genealogy of slavery and its legacy. This paper assesses the extent to which this fractured genealogy actually represents the former slaves’ worldview. By examining a selection of interviews conducted by the Federal Writers’ Project under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s (the WPA Narratives), this paper explores formers slaves’ memories of their enslaved fathers and the significance of the voluntary paternal presence in their life stories. It concludes that the role of the black father was of greater significance than so far recognised by the genealogical narratives that emerged from the slave communities of the Antebellum South.
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Strickland. "Teaching the History of Slavery in the United States with Interviews: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1938." Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 4 (2014): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0041.

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Baibakova, Larisa Vilorovna. "Peculiarities of perception by former slaves of their social status in the era of slavery (based on the collection of their memoirs in the Library of US Congress)." Исторический журнал: научные исследования, no. 4 (April 2020): 131–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0609.2020.4.33626.

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Slavery has always been condemned across the world; however in the end of the XX century, such canonical concept was rectified based on the extensive examination by American scholars of compilation of narratives of the former slaves collected in 1930s in the United States. At that time, 2,300 former slaves from 17 states were interviewed about their life in the era of slavery. Later, these interviews were placed in open access on the website of the Library of US Congress, reconstructing a contradictory picture of everyday life of African-Americans in the conditions of plantation economy: some reminiscences convey almost a nostalgic feeling of the past, while others criticizes it severely. The author in his attempt explain the historical accuracy of the results of mass interviewing of African-Americans, tries to make sense why 70 years later, the eyewitnesses of the same event have polar viewpoints. Forming the new comparative-historical approaches towards examination of collective consciousness under the influence of anthropologization of historical knowledge, the interview materials allow reconstructing the period, demonstrating the value system of the entire population group, unlike biography that structures the chain of events in chronological order. Analysis of the archive “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938” has not been previously conducted within the Russian historiography, just briefly mentioned as one of the documentary aspects of the institution of slavery. The contained material is important for scientific comprehension of the bygone era of slavery, reflected in the collective memory of long-suffering African-American sub-ethnos. The problem of slavery in the United States, which synthesizes heritage of the past with practices of everyday life in various manifestations, seems optimal from the perspective of historiographical interest.
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Roulston, Kathryn. "Using Archival Data to Examine Interview Methods: The Case of the Former Slave Project." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 (January 1, 2019): 160940691986700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406919867003.

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Unlike historians, qualitative researchers’ engagement in studies in which archival sources form the core data corpus is less common than the exploration of newly generated data. Following scholars who have argued for secondary analysis of qualitative data, in this article, I illustrate how qualitative researchers might explore archival data methodologically. Examinations of archival records help us think about how research methods change over time and compare approaches to current practice. This article draws on records from the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), one of the New Deal initiatives launched by President F. D. Roosevelt in the United States. The FWP was a work relief program administered during the Depression years in the 1930s that employed 6,500 white-collar workers as fieldworkers, writers, and editors to solicit stories from 1,000s of men and women across the country, including stories of over 4,000 former slaves. This article focuses on the role of interviewing in the Former Slave Project, examining methodological issues of concern observed by administrators and critics of the project, along with what we might learn and how we might think about these issues in contemporary interview research.
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"Slave culture: a documentary collection of the slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project." Choice Reviews Online 52, no. 03 (October 23, 2014): 52–1195. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.169483.

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Kotkiewicz, Theresa. "Narrative Inquiry and Content Analysis of Selected Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3625081.

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Chakrabarti Myers, Amrita. ""Sisters in Arms": Slave Women's Resistance to Slavery in the United States." Past Imperfect 5 (February 21, 2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.21971/p74k59.

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This paper examines the gendered nature of slave resistance in the nineteenth-century United States and illustrates the ways in which both gender and race shaped the institution of slavery. This examination is based on a collection of ex-slave oral interviews which were gathered in the 1930s in the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data reveal that slave women defended their own needs as slaves and challenged the system itself. The analysis broadens the traditional definition of resistance," and illustrates the ways in which slave women carried out their day-to-day resistance to an oppressive system of servitude. Without women, slave resistance could not have been so throughly entwined into the fabric of everyday life as under slavery.
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"Mother wit: the ex-slave narratives of the Louisiana Writers' Project." Choice Reviews Online 29, no. 04 (December 1, 1991): 29–2288. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-2288.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives"

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Wartberg, Lynn Cowles. "“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1575.

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In 1936, Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) employees began interviewing formerly enslaved men and women, allowing them to speak publicly of their experiences under slavery. Defying racism and the repressions of Jim Crow, ex-slaves discussed intimate details of their lives. Many researchers considered these interviews unreliable, but if viewed through the lens of gender and analyzed using recent scholarship on slavery and sexuality, FWP interviews offer new insights into the lives of enslaved men and women. Using a small number of ex-slave interviews, most of them drawn from Louisiana, this thesis demonstrates the value of these oral histories for understanding the sexual lives of enslaved men and women. These interviews expose what we would otherwise have little access to: the centrality of struggles over enslaved people’s sexuality and reproduction to the experience of enslavement and the long-term effects of these struggles on the attitudes of slavery’s survivors.
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Hill, Jobie. "Humanizing HABS: Rethinking the Historic American Buildings Survey's Role in Interpreting Antebellum Slave Houses." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13303.

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The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Federal Writers' Project were two government survey programs from the 1930s that, in part, documented slavery in America. Historically stakeholders utilized these resources in isolation of one another. Coordination between the two programs in this study has identified five documented slave houses from the HABS collection that are directly linked to a slave narrative recorded by the Writers' Project. The slave narrative brings to life the spatial density, degree of accommodations, nature of the facilities, and attitudes of those who inhabited the slave house. The relationship between the historical record and the stories of the inhabitants is crucial to our understanding and interpretation of the lifeways and settings of enslaved African Americans in the Antebellum South. Historic preservationists now have five personal accounts of the historic plantation landscape upon which to build future interdisciplinary appreciation and research.
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Books on the topic "Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives"

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Clayton, Ronnie W. Mother wit: The ex-slave narratives of the Louisiana Writers' Project. New York: P. Lang, 1990.

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Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project. Santa Barbara, USA: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2014.

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Works Progress Administration. Georgia Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Authored by Federal Writers' Project of ... Progress Administration. Historic Publishing, 2017.

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Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers' Project (University of Kansas Humanistic Studies, Vol 57). Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1991.

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Bégin, Camille. Tasting Place, Sensing Race. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040252.003.0004.

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This chapter explores food writing throughout the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) archive—American Guide Series, Folklore Project, Social-Ethnic Studies, Negro Studies Project, Feeding the City. This expanded corpus forms the basis of analytical and ethnographic narratives on three 1930s sensory economies. The chapter analyzes how southern food, following millions of African American interwar migrants, lost some of its regional sensory anchoring and became increasingly perceived and sensed as “black food” in northern and urban sensory economies. It also tracks how African Americans began claiming food of southern origins as one of the sensory nexus of a modern black urban identity, thereby erasing the source of earlier tensions between newly arrived migrants and better-off northern blacks.
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Book chapters on the topic "Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives"

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Edelstein, Sari. "Peculiar Forms of Aging in the Literature of US Slavery." In Adulthood and Other Fictions, 44–70. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831884.003.0003.

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The second chapter examines slavery’s distorting effects on age. It reveals how racism and slavery operate through age, buttressing a system that distributed maturity, and humanity, according to an invented logic that age discourse helped to naturalize. The chapter explores the vexed status of age under slavery Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and my Freedom (1855) and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as well as Federal Writers’ Project interviews with former slaves who seem to defy the boundaries of human longevity. These narratives acknowledge not merely the corruption of childhood but the exclusion from adulthood as among the most troubling aspects of slavery. Ultimately, they lament slavery’s use of age as a metric of economic value and a tool for dehumanization, and their narratives stage willful refusals to accommodate this logic.
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