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Gr. 8^-12. This disturbing collection of slave narratives raises as many questions about how we know history as it does about the atrocity of slavery and its aftermath. Hurmence has selected and edited 12 oral histories from the more than 2,000 recorded in 1936 for the Works Progress Administration of the Library of Congress. People in their eighties remember what it was like to be a child under slavery. They remember brutality, wrenching family separation, hard labor; some also remember kindly masters, happy times, and the security of food and shelter. But, as with all such interviews, how reliable are these accounts? How much do they reflect the subject's desire to please the interviewer? How much were they edited by the interviewer, who recorded with pencil and paper? Do they reflect the nostalgia of old people during the grinding poverty of the Great Depression and after a lifetime of struggle looking back to slavery? And why did Hurmence select these 12 and not others? She raises some of these issues in her introduction, which will stimulate classroom discussion, especially when compared with the very different accounts by younger, militant ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Now that it's all over, I don't find life so good in my old age, as it was in slavery time when I was chillun, down on Marster's plantation," said James Bolton when he was interviewed as an old man in Georgia.
Not all memories of slavery were as good as Bolton's, and this book shows many aspects of plantation life as seen through the eyes of men and women who were children when slavery came to an end, in 1865. Mingo White recounts how he was sent away from his parents when he was four or five, so that he didn't recognize his mother when she came to find him. Tempie Durham tells of her wedding, at which she wore a white dress and veil and her mistress played the wedding march on the piano. Lucinda Davis talks about growing up as a slave to a Creek Indian family. Descriptions of children's games contrast with accounts of brutal mistreatment, but most affecting of all are the stories of what it was like when slaves suddenly found themselves free to go where they pleased, after a lifetime of being the property of their masters. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gr. 8^-12. This disturbing collection of slave narratives raises as many questions about how we know history as it does about the atrocity of slavery and its aftermath. Hurmence has selected and edited 12 oral histories from the more than 2,000 recorded in 1936 for the Works Progress Administration of the Library of Congress. People in their eighties remember what it was like to be a child under slavery. They remember brutality, wrenching family separation, hard labor; some also remember kindly masters, happy times, and the security of food and shelter. But, as with all such interviews, how reliable are these accounts? How much do they reflect the subject's desire to please the interviewer? How much were they edited by the interviewer, who recorded with pencil and paper? Do they reflect the nostalgia of old people during the grinding poverty of the Great Depression and after a lifetime of struggle looking back to slavery? And why did Hurmence select these 12 and not others? She raises some of these issues in her introduction, which will stimulate classroom discussion, especially when compared with the very different accounts by younger, militant ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
"Now that it's all over, I don't find life so good in my old age, as it was in slavery time when I was chillun, down on Marster's plantation," said James Bolton when he was interviewed as an old man in Georgia.
Not all memories of slavery were as good as Bolton's, and this book shows many aspects of plantation life as seen through the eyes of men and women who were children when slavery came to an end, in 1865. Mingo White recounts how he was sent away from his parents when he was four or five, so that he didn't recognize his mother when she came to find him. Tempie Durham tells of her wedding, at which she wore a white dress and veil and her mistress played the wedding march on the piano. Lucinda Davis talks about growing up as a slave to a Creek Indian family. Descriptions of children's games contrast with accounts of brutal mistreatment, but most affecting of all are the stories of what it was like when slaves suddenly found themselves free to go where they pleased, after a lifetime of being the property of their masters. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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