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  • Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents

    [2 volumes]

    Edited by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of ... Read more

    $211.99 CAD

  • How the Slaves Saw the Civil War

    Recollections of the War through the WPA Slave Narratives

    by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Drawing from narratives of former slaves to provide accurate and poignant insights, this book presents descriptions in the former slaves' own words about their lives before, during, and following the Civil War.Examining narratives allows us to better understand what life was truly like for slaves: "hearing" history in their own words brings the human aspects of slavery and their interpersonal ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • What the Slaves Ate

    Recollections of African American Foods and Foodways from the Slave Narratives

    by Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach ...
    Carefully documenting African American slave foods, this book reveals that slaves actively developed their own foodways-their customs involving family and food. The authors connect African foods and food preparation to the development during slavery of Southern cuisines having African influences, including Cajun, Creole, and what later became known as soul food, drawing on the recollections of ex ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    "A Best Book of the Year" —Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writer's Project, this astonishing collection makes available in print the only known recordings of people who actually experienced slavery--recordings that had gathered dust in the Library of Congress until they were ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Folks Don't Want Me To Talk About Slavery

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina

    Edited by Belinda Hurmence ...
    Former slaves themselves—an important but long-neglected source of information about the institution of slavery in the United States. Who could better describe what slavery was like than the people who experienced it? And describe it they did, in thousands of remarkable interviews sponsored by the Federal Writers’ Project during the 1930s. More than 170 interviews were conducted in North Carolina. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard

    Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia

    by Belinda Hurmence ...
    In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Volume III Florida Narratives

    by United States. Work Projects Administration ...
    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives is a significant compilation of firsthand accounts from former enslaved individuals in Florida, recorded by the WPA’s Federal Writers' Project. This volume presents a rich array of personal stories that illuminate the complex realities of slavery in the state, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless

    The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in Indiana

    by Ronald L. Baker ...
    Homeless, Friendless, and PennilessThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in IndianaRonald L. BakerLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is an invaluable record of the lives and thoughts of former slaves who moved to Indiana after the Civil War and made ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Negro Problem. Illustrated.: Booker T. Washington, W.E. Burghardt DuBois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H.T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune (Mobi Classics)

    by Booker T. Washington ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. TABLE OF ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slave Narratives: Indiana

    by Library of Congress ...
    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Slavery

    African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

    Edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, Steven F. Miller ...
    The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-ReedWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination—and conscience—once again.No group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Never Forget Your First

    A Biography of George Washington

    by Alexis Coe ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders.” —Boston GlobeAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not quite the man ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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