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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember

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“Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that . . . lie at the root of today’s racism.” —Publishers Weekly
 
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are twenty-nine full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era. Skillfully edited, these chronicles bear eloquent witness to the trials of slaves in America, reveal the wide range of conditions of human bondage, and provide sobering insight into the roots of racism in today’s society.
 
“Remarkably articulate . . . vivid, moving, and beautifully cadenced.” —The New Yorker
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Release dateDec 23, 2014
ISBN9780802191182
Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember

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    I gave the book 5 stars, meaning "I loved it." You can't love this book, but you need to read it. I picked it up and put it down many times before finishing it, feeling so sick that one human could treat another so brutally; that one human could OWN another. To read the humble stories told by American citizens born into slavery, (and not that long ago) makes a person like myself, born and raised in 1950's Oregon, a "sundown" state, think a bit more clearly about why we did not see or know a Black person, a Native American, a Chinese person---the thought of non-white people wasn't part of our lives. Read the sad, brave, life stories in this book, and know forever why Black lives matter forever and ever.

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