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Title Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom / edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press ; Washington, D.C. : In association with The Library of Congress, [2007]
New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton
©1998
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2080996~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  306.3620973 REM    AVAILABLE
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Description xlxi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note Adult
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life: "from can to can't" -- Family life in slavery: "our folks" -- Slave culture: "honest and fair service to the Lord and all mankind everywhere" -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes.
Summary The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos.
Audience Adult
Subject Slavery -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans -- Interviews.
Added Author Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018.
Favreau, Marc, 1929-2005.
Miller, Steven F.
Library of Congress.
ISBN 9781565845879
1565845870
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