Title River of blood : American slavery from the people who lived it : interviews & photographs of formerly enslaved African Americans / edited by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams ; foreword by Adam Green.

Publication Info.	Chicago, Illinois : CityFiles Press, [2020]
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Edition	First edition.
Description	240 pages : photographs ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliography (pages [238]-239).
Contents	Slavery and identity -- Day to day -- Trauma that lasts forever -- War and freedom -- The pain of Reconstruction -- Once a slave.
Summary	"In the late 1930s, the federal government embarked on an unusual project. As a part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to give jobs to unemployed Americans, government workers tracked down 3,000 men and women who had been enslaved before and during the Civil War. The workers asked them probing questions about slave life. What did they think about their slaveholders? What songs did they sing? What games did they play? Did they always think about escaping? The result was a remarkable compilation of interviews known as the Slave Narratives. This book highlights those narratives--condensing tens of thousands of pages into short excerpts from about 100 former slaves and pairs their accounts with their photographs, taken by the workers sent to record their stories." --Amazon.com.
Subject	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Chronological Term	1865-1877
Subject	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
	Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) (OCoLC)fst01754987
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Subject	African Americans -- History.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
	Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Interviews.
Subject	Slavery -- United States -- History.
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Added Author	Cahan, Richard, editor.
	Williams, Michael, editor.
	Green, Adam, writer of foreword.
ISBN	9780991541850 (hardcover)
	0991541855 (hardcover)

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