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Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
The Negro Law of South Carolina was characterized by Howell Meadoes Henry as being: "An excellent summary of South Carolina slave law with court interpretations in narrative style, and with notes and comment and even recommendations as to desirable changes." [12] It provides examples of opposition to and violation of literacy law by white ...
Denied a deed of manumission in Ohio for a citizen of Mississippi's mixed-race son and his slave mother, because it was against Mississippi statutes (which required an act by the state legislature), and was considered fraud 1838: North Carolina v. Manuel: Supreme Court of North Carolina
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. University of South Carolina Press. Hill Edwards, Justene (2021). Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54926-4. LCCN 2020038705.
George Dillard's oral history was recorded in 1936 for the Slave Narrative Collection by the Federal Writers' Project. Notable FWP projects included the Slave Narrative Collection, a set of interviews that culminated in more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. [4]
Records and slave narratives obtained by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) clearly indicate that the enslavement of Native Americans continued in the 1800s, mostly through kidnappings. [40] One example is a documented WPA interview from a former slave, Dennis Grant, whose mother was full-blooded Native American. [40]
The South Carolina slave code was revised in 1739 with the following amendments: [2] No slave is to be taught to write, to work on Sunday, or to work more than 15 hours per day in summer, and 14 hours in winter. Willful killing of a slave exacts a fine of £700, "passion"-killing £350.
The Bullock Museum in Texas holds a belled slave collar. [18] Mary Gaffney, interviewed for the WPA Slave Narratives Project, told the interviewer that "back there in Mississippi I'se saw slaves wear bells because they would get a pass and not come home when Maser would tell them to and for being contrary. Them bells was fixes on a brace so'es ...