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- catalog abstract "During the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians but few others. From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen twenty-seven narratives from the twelve hundred type-written pages of interviews with 284 former South Carolina slaves. The result is a moving, eloquent, and often surprising firsthand account of the lost years of slavery and first years of freedom. The former slaves describe the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the houses they lived in, the work they did, and the treatment they received. They give their impressions of Yankee soldiers, the Klan, their masters, and their newfound freedom. In Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember, Hurmence makes accessible to the casual reader what many scholars and historians have long known to be a great source of our nation's history. Best Books for Senior High Readers. This is a collection of actual accounts of the lives and living conditions of 27 ex-slaves.".
- catalog contributor b2411164.
- catalog coverage "South Carolina Biography.".
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "During the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook the task of locating former slaves and recording their oral histories. The more than ten thousand pages of interviews with over two thousand former slaves were filed in the Library of Congress, where they were known to scholars and historians but few others. From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen twenty-seven narratives from the twelve hundred type-written pages of interviews with 284 former South Carolina slaves. The result is a moving, eloquent, and often surprising firsthand account of the lost years of slavery and first years of freedom. The former slaves describe the clothes they wore, the food they ate, the houses they lived in, the work they did, and the treatment they received. They give their impressions of Yankee soldiers, the Klan, their masters, and their newfound freedom. In Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember, Hurmence makes accessible to the casual reader what many scholars and historians have long known to be a great source of our nation's history. Best Books for Senior High Readers. This is a collection of actual accounts of the lives and living conditions of 27 ex-slaves.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Violet Guntharpe (Winnsboro, SC) -- Brawley Gilmore (Union, SC) -- Hester Hunter (Marion, SC) -- Ben Horry (Murrells Inlet, SC) -- Jake McLeod (Timmonsville, SC) -- Adeline Jackson (Winnsboro, SC) -- Adele Frost (Richland County, SC) -- Milton Marshall (Newberry, SC) -- Alexander Scaife (Pacolet, SC) -- Zack Herndon (Gaffney, SC) -- Adeline Johnson (Winnsboro, SC) -- Rebecca Jane Grant (Lena, SC) -- Elijah Green (Charleston, SC) -- Amy Perry (Charleston, SC) -- Willis Williams (Conway, SC) -- Sam Polite (Beaufort County, SC) -- Fannie Griffin (Columbia, SC) -- Silvia Chisolm (Estill, SC) -- Prince Smith (Wardmalaw, SC) -- George Briggs (Union, SC) -- Adeline Grey (Luray, SC) -- Sarah Poindexter (Columbia, SC) -- Peter Clifton (Winnsboro, SC) -- Isiah Jeffries (Gaffney, SC) -- Robert Toatley (White Oak, SC) -- Sylvia Cannon (Florence, SC) -- Savilla Burrell (Winnsboro, SC).".
- catalog extent "xvi, 135 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Before freedom, when I just can remember.".
- catalog identifier "089587069X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Before freedom, when I just can remember.".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Winston-Salem, N.C. : J.F. Blair,".
- catalog relation "Before freedom, when I just can remember.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina Biography.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "975.6/00496073022 B 19".
- catalog subject "African Americans South Carolina Biography.".
- catalog subject "E445.S7 B44 1989".
- catalog subject "Oral history South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "Oral history.".
- catalog subject "Slave narratives South Carolina.".
- catalog subject "Slavery South Carolina History Sources.".
- catalog subject "Slaves South Carolina Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Violet Guntharpe (Winnsboro, SC) -- Brawley Gilmore (Union, SC) -- Hester Hunter (Marion, SC) -- Ben Horry (Murrells Inlet, SC) -- Jake McLeod (Timmonsville, SC) -- Adeline Jackson (Winnsboro, SC) -- Adele Frost (Richland County, SC) -- Milton Marshall (Newberry, SC) -- Alexander Scaife (Pacolet, SC) -- Zack Herndon (Gaffney, SC) -- Adeline Johnson (Winnsboro, SC) -- Rebecca Jane Grant (Lena, SC) -- Elijah Green (Charleston, SC) -- Amy Perry (Charleston, SC) -- Willis Williams (Conway, SC) -- Sam Polite (Beaufort County, SC) -- Fannie Griffin (Columbia, SC) -- Silvia Chisolm (Estill, SC) -- Prince Smith (Wardmalaw, SC) -- George Briggs (Union, SC) -- Adeline Grey (Luray, SC) -- Sarah Poindexter (Columbia, SC) -- Peter Clifton (Winnsboro, SC) -- Isiah Jeffries (Gaffney, SC) -- Robert Toatley (White Oak, SC) -- Sylvia Cannon (Florence, SC) -- Savilla Burrell (Winnsboro, SC).".
- catalog title "Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves / edited by Belinda Hurmence.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".