Description In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves.
Tennessee was not a large.
In this volume, thirty-six former slaves living in Tennessee recount what it was like to live under the yoke.
During the mid-1930s, the Federal Writers\' Project undertook a similar effort, ultimately compiling more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of material in seventeen states.
Description In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves