Remembering slavery

Description:

This set contains: two sixty-minute audiotapes that include original live recordings of interviews with former slaves and dramatic readings by celebrities from written interviews; and, a hardcover book that includes a comprehensive introductory essay by preeminent slavery historian Ira Berlin, chapters on aspects of slave life, including relationships with owners, work, family culture, the Civil War, and Emancipation; complete transcript of the live recordings and dramatic readings of interviews with former slaves, contained on the companion tapes; extensive additional interviews with former slaves; little-known period photographs, including some of the former slaves interviewed on the companion tapes.

subjects: Freedmen,  African Americans,  Interviews,  Slavery,  Plantation life,  Sources,  Slaves,  Social conditions,  Slavernij,  Negers,  History,  Blacks,  African Americas,  15.85 history of America,  Biography,  Slaves, emancipation, united states,  African americans, history,  Slavery, united states, history,  History, united states,  Enslaved Persons,  Black People,  Slaves, social conditions,  African americans, southern states,  Freedmen, united states,  African americans, social conditions,  Slavery, history,  Southern states, social conditions,  Slaves, united states,  Slaves, united states, social conditions,  Emancipation,  Freed persons