Name: Prayin' to be set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi (Real Voices, Real History Series) (en Inglés)
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Author: Andrew Waters
ISBN: 9780895872562

portada Prayin' to be set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi (Real Voices, Real History Series) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Blair

Autor

Andrew Waters

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

193

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0895872560

ISBN13

9780895872562

Prayin' to be set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi (Real Voices, Real History Series) (en Inglés)

Andrew Waters (Autor) · Blair · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Prayin' to be set Free: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Mississippi (Real Voices, Real History Series) (en Inglés)"

In his introduction to Prayin’ to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state’s legendary blues artists. The pain, the modest eloquence, and even the underlying vitality are much the same. What is now Mississippi wasn’t acquired by the United States until 1798, at which time it had fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, excluding Native Americans. By the Civil War, it had over 430,000 slaves and 350,000 whites. More than half the whites were members of slave-owning families. The majority of slaves worked in the cotton fields. Mississippi was known as a slave-buying frontier state, in contrast to the eastern states, which sold slaves westward. Indeed, many of the former slaves in this book speak of coming to Mississippi as children. At the height of the Depression, the out-of-work wordsmiths who comprised the Federal Writers’ Project began interviewing elderly African-Americans about their experiences under slavery. The former slaves were more than 70 years removed from bondage, but the memories of many of them were strikingly clear. The accounts from former Mississippi slaves are considered among the strongest in the entire collection. The 28 narratives presented here are the best of those. Andrew Waters is a writer and former editor. A native North Carolinian, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Honors in Creative Writing and received a graduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the executive director of the Spartanburg Area Conservancy in Spartanburg, SC.