Florida Slave Narratives

Florida 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

Confederate authors include Robert E

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shattered the expectations of a tightly corseted society

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Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened

Readers will be enthralled by speech drafts in Lincoln's own hand

Edited by James Gilreath and Douglas L

As a record of poetry

” and appears as the guardian of civilization with her armor partly laid aside

he encouraged his fellow farmers to grow olives

Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire

" This quote was written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to John Adams