During the 1930s, the Federal Writers\' Project undertook the task of locating Former Slaves and recording their Oral histories.
She now lives in Raleigh, NC..
She has also edited My Folks Don\'t Want Me to Talk About Slavery and We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard, companion volumes to this book.
She has written several novels for young people, including Tough Tiffany (an ALA Notable Book), A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents\' Choice Award), and The Nightwalker.
About the Author: Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University.
She now lives in Raleigh, NC.
She has also edited My Folks Don\'t Want Me to Talk About Slavery and We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard, companion volumes to this book.
She has written several novels for young people, including Tough Tiffany (an ALA Notable Book), A Girl Called Boy (winner of the Parents\' Choice Award), and The Nightwalker.
Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University.
They give their impressions of Yankee soldiers, the Klan, their masters, and their newfound 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.
The result is a moving, eloquent, and often surprising firsthand account of the last years of slavery and first years of freedom.
From this storehouse of information, Belinda Hurmence has chosen Twenty-Seven narratives from the twelve hundred typewritten pages of interviews with 284 Former South Carolina slaves.
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.
During the 1930s, the Federal Writers\' Project undertook the task of locating Former Slaves and recording their Oral histories
