Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives
United States. Work Projects Administration
Biographies, History - American
'Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives' is a collection of firsthand accounts compiled by the Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s and published in 1941. This volume features interviews with former slaves, detailing their experiences before and after the Civil War, including life on plantations and the impact of freedom. Notable figures include Clayton Holbert, Bill Simms, and Belle Williams, whose stories reveal the complexities of survival, family, and humanity within the harsh realities of slavery in Kansas.
