Description
When Remembering Slavery was first published 15 years ago, this startling (and bestselling) first-person account of slavery was heralded as powerful and intense' (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and 'invaluable' (Chicago Tribune). Drawing from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, this astonishing collection makes available the only known recordings of people who lived through the enormity of slavery.'
About the Author
Book Information
ISBN 9781620970287
Author Ira Berlin
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press
About the Author
Marc Favreau is the editorial director of The New Press. He is the editor of A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
(with Leslie M. Harris). His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.
Steven F. Miller is a co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.
Book Information
ISBN 9781620970287
Author Ira Berlin
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press
