Mississippi Slave Narratives

Mississippi Slave NarrativesThe view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex slaves

Written to accompany the Library of Congress bicentennial exhibition

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English majors

This seed cuts in line every time

she grows weary of the responsibilities of being a doting daughter and worries she is sacrificing her chance to find fulfillment in her middle age

Orlean delivers a tale that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before

a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who bully Russell for being “queer

a poor student

about the redemptive power and vitality of hope

and complete fabrications

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