Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during 1936-1938 "These life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators' words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect source material, . . . The narratives belong to folk history—history recovered from the memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses,” This is Volume Nine, comprising 26 narratives, for the state of Mississippi in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 5:25:32

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• black history
• civil war
• mississippi
• racism
• emancipation
• social justice
• reconstruction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Jim Allen — 12:50
2. 02 - Anna Baker — 15:02
3. 03 - John Cameron — 6:53
4. 04 - Gus Clark — 9:13
5. 05 - James Cornelius — 14:30
6. 06 - Charlie Davenport — 22:07
7. 07 - Gabe Emanuel — 8:53
8. 08 - Dora Franks — 10:48
9. 09 - Pet Franks — 8:06
10. 10 - Nettie Henry — 12:12
11. 11 - Fanny Smith Hodges — 7:43
12. 12 - Wayne Holliday — 7:09
13. 13 - Prince Johnson — 16:51
14. 14 - Hamp Kennedy — 12:16
15. 15 - James Lucas — 21:33
16. 16 - Sam Mcallum — 27:24
17. 17 - Charlie Moses — 11:15
18. 18 - Henri Necaise — 12:42
19. 19 - Rev. James Singleton — 6:32
20. 20 - Berry Smith — 13:38
21. 21 - Susan Snow — 13:19
22. 22 - Isaac Stier — 17:01
23. 23 - Jane Sutton — 9:35
24. 24 - Mollie Williams — 11:15

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