- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Slave narratives
- Creator:
- Trap, Diane
- Date of Original:
- 2007-09-12
- Subject:
- Slave narratives--Georgia
Slaves--Georgia
Slavery--Southern States
Federal Writers' Project
Brown, John, fl. 1854
Craft, William
Craft, Ellen - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about slave narratives. One of the most valuable sources available for understanding the experiences of slaves in the American South is the testimony that they themselves produced in a variety of ways, both during and long after the existence of the "peculiar institution." These testimonials, generally referred to as slave "narratives," include memoirs and autobiographies written by fugitive slaves who fled to the North and were assisted by abolitionists with the publication of their stories, as well as twentieth-century oral interviews with elderly former slaves that recorded their memories of life during slavery and the circumstances of their emancipation.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/slave-narratives/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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