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In the 1930's, the last decade when many men and??women who were born under slavery and freed by the??Emancipation Proclamation.still lived, the New??Deal's Federal Writing Project made an extraordinary??and important decision. It sent interviewers to??ask these African-American survivors : What does??it mean to be free? Even more, how does it??feel?
"Does I remember much 'bout??slavery times? Well, there is??no way for me to disremember unless I??die."
B.A. Botkin compiled nearly three hundred of??these narratives to create a rich, unvarnished??portrait of lives lived half slave, half free. In??it, people who experienced the seasonal rhythms of??plantation life . . .who were eyewitnesses to??Lincoln, Douglas, and Tubman . . .who had their??conciousness shaped by bondage . . .and who felt the??anguish of the lash have their memories brought to??life again. Their voices reach out across the??decades and teach us what they know -- our history and??our legacy in their telling of an indelible truth.
