Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

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When Remembering Slavery was first published 15 years ago, this startling (and bestselling) first-person account of slavery was heralded as 'powerful and intense' (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and 'invaluable' (Chicago Tribune). Drawing from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, this astonishing collection makes available the only known recordings of people who lived through the enormity of slavery.

Marc Favreau is the editorial director of The New Press. He is the editor of A People's History of World War II: The World's Most Destructive Conflict, as Told by the People Who Lived Through It. He lives in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Until his death in 2018, Ira Berlin was one of the preeminent historians of American slavery. He was the author of Many Thousands Gone, Generations of Captivity, and Slaves Without Masters. He co-edited Families and Freedom (with Leslie S. Rowland) and Slavery in New York (with Leslie M. Harris). His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, among many other awards. Steven F. Miller is a co-editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project and a co-editor (with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland) of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.

Praise for Remembering Slavery: "Gripping and poignant. . . . Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature." --The Washington Post Book World "Ira Berlin's fifty-page introduction is as good a synthesis of current scholarship as one will find, with fresh insights for any reader." --The San Diego Union-Tribune "Invaluable." --Chicago Tribune "Chilling riveting. . . . This project will enrich every American home and classroom." --Publishers Weekly "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature." --The Washington Post "Quite literally, history comes alive in this unparalleled work." --Library Journal