Taken from the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) transcriptions of 1936. This volume contains a well-balanced mixture of Sumner County, Tennessee, records, including family information, bible records, as well as tombstone records and inscriptions. The result is this collection, which provides the dates of birth and death, as well as family relationships, of approximately 2,500 persons listed in the index. The final section includes numerous colorful letters from the Civil War. Paperback, (1936), repr. 2012, Index, xii + 187 pp.

Sumner County, Tennessee: Bible, Family and Tombstone Records

History

Works Progress Administration

Americas

Janaway Publishing, Inc.

In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers' Project. One of the group's most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection, consisting of more than 2,000 transcripts of interviews with former slaves, who, in blunt, simple words, provided often-startling first-person accounts of their lives in bondage. This book reprints some of the most detailed and engrossing life histories in the collection. Each narrative is complete.Thirty-four gripping testimonies are included, with all slave occupations represented - from field hand and cook to French tutor and seamstress. Personal treatment reported by these individuals also encompassed a wide range - from the most harsh and exploitative to living and working conditions that were intimate and benevolent.An illuminating and unique source of information about life in the South before, during, and after the Civil War, these memoirs, most importantly, preserve the opinions and perspective of those who were enslaved. Invaluable to students, teachers, and specialists in Southern history, this compelling book will intrigue anyone interested in the African-American experience.

When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection

Politics & Social Sciences

Former Slaves, Transcripts Of Interviews

Sociology

Medina Univ PR Intl

In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still around today.

New Orleans City Guide, 1938

Garrett County Press

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