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Mighty Rough Times I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee

Mighty Rough Times I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee

Sutcliffe, Andrea

Paperback

Series: Real Voices, Real History Series

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0895872269
ISBN13: 9780895872265
Publisher: Blair
Published: Oct 1 2000
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves. During the mid-1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a similar effort, ultimately compiling more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of material in seventeen states. In this volume, thirty-six former slaves living in Tennessee recount what it was like to live under the yoke. Tennessee was not a large slaveholding state compared with others in the South. On the other hand, it was a leader in the abolition movement prior to 1830 and a powder keg of mixed Union and Confederate sympathies at the time of the Civil War. The voices in this volume thus recall the extreme conditions of slavery in the border country.

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