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On Jordan's Stormy Banks

- Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia
Engelsk Paperback

On Jordan's Stormy Banks

- Personal Accounts of Slavery in Georgia
Engelsk Paperback
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During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers’ Project engaged jobless writers and researchers to interview former slaves about their experiences in bondage. Most of the interviewees were by then in their eighties and nineties, and their memories were soon to be lost to history. The effort was a huge success, eventually encompassing more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of material across seventeen states. This collection presents the personal narratives of twenty-eight former Georgia slaves. As editor Andrew Waters notes, the “two ends of the human perspective—terror and joy” are often evident within the same interviews, as the ex-slaves tell of the abuses they endured while they simultaneously yearn for younger, simpler days. The result is a complex mix of emotions spoken out of a dark past that must not be forgotten.

Andrew Waters is a writer and former editor. A native North Carolinian, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Honors in Creative Writing and received a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the executive director of the Spartanburg Area Conservancy in Spartanburg, SC.

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During the Great Depression, the Federal Writers’ Project engaged jobless writers and researchers to interview former slaves about their experiences in bondage. Most of the interviewees were by then in their eighties and nineties, and their memories were soon to be lost to history. The effort was a huge success, eventually encompassing more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of material across seventeen states. This collection presents the personal narratives of twenty-eight former Georgia slaves. As editor Andrew Waters notes, the “two ends of the human perspective—terror and joy” are often evident within the same interviews, as the ex-slaves tell of the abuses they endured while they simultaneously yearn for younger, simpler days. The result is a complex mix of emotions spoken out of a dark past that must not be forgotten.

Andrew Waters is a writer and former editor. A native North Carolinian, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Honors in Creative Writing and received a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the executive director of the Spartanburg Area Conservancy in Spartanburg, SC.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 196
ISBN-13: 9780895872289
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0895872285
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 17 feb 2000
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 190mm
Forlag: John F Blair Publisher
Oplagsdato: 17 feb 2000
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Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9780895872289

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 196

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 127mm

Højde 190mm

Udg. Dato 17 feb 2000

Oplagsdato 17 feb 2000

Forlag John F Blair Publisher