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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emancipation

by: Berlin, Ira, 1941-; Favreau, Marc, 1968-; Miller, Steven F

Publication date: 1998

Topics: Slaves, Slaves, African Americans, Freedmen, Slavery, Slaves, Plantation life, African Americans, Slavernij, Negers

Publisher: New York : New Press ; Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress

Collection: internetarchivebooks; delawarecountydistrictlibrary; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings from written interviews

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and index

Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life -- Family life in slavery -- Slave culture -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes

This set contains: two sixty-minute audiotapes that include original live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings by celebrities from written interviews; and, a hardcover book that includes a comprehensive introductory essay by preeminent slavery historian Ira Berlin, chapters on aspects of slave life, including relationships with owners, work, family culture, the Civil War, and Emancipation; complete transcript of the live recordings and dramatic readings of iterviews with former slaves, contained on the companion tapes; extensive additional interviews with former slaves; little-known period photographs, including some of the former slaves interviewed on the companion tapes