He was a slave from Senegal who wrote in Arabic. Or was he an Arab prince? He was a scholar who memorized vast passages of the Qur’an and mastered numerous Islamic texts. Or were his writings ...
One day in 1855, a man walked into a newspaper office in Sydney, Australia, with an odd request. The man, later described as a “man of color” with “bright, intelligent eyes” and an American accent, ...
What was it like to live in slavery? One way to answer this question is to dig into Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. ExplorePineBluff.com took a look ...
The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral videos exposed injustice, enslaved Black Americans wielded their narratives as ...
Anna Deavere Smith’s forthright reading of Hannah Crafts’s powerful autobiographical novel makes the antebellum South palpably present. Included in the audio book is the testimony of a distinguished ...
A scholar raises questions, and hackles, with evidence that the ex-slave who wrote the definitive first-person account of the Middle Passage may not have made that infamous journey What if you were ...
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project collected the narratives of former slaves in the United States. Clint Smith of The Atlantic speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about these stories. School kids ...
Robert Falls, a former slave who lived out the last years of his life at a home on Broadway Avenue in Knoxville, put it bluntly to a writer collecting his story: “If I had my life to live over, I ...
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