title: Slave Culture [3 volumes]: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
author: Spencer R. Crew
description: "The editors have created a solid resource for students by organizing the narratives into categories, using selections that focus on particular reflections of the enslaved life. . . . This is a valuable contribution to United States history. <i>Slave Culture</i> is well-written and organized; it is ideal for the high school and undergraduate student. Upper-level college students and researchers will find some use for this book as well." - <i>ARBA</i><br /><br />"Although some aspects of slavery remained consistent across history, readers should keep in mind that this set represents only a snapshot in time, namely the last days of slavery as related seven decades after the Civil War, mostly by people who were children in the 1860s. Nonetheless, the power of their stories is not diminished. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers." - <i>Choice</i><br /><br />"What the editors do in<i> Slave Culture</i> that is so valuable is to sort the material in a way that makes it easy to locate testimonials about the varied aspects of life under slavery. . . . The result is an easily searchable reference work that puts primary source information at the researcher's fingertips. While many incarnations of the Federal Slave Narratives exist, few are as intuitively easy to use as the three volumes of <i>Slave Culture</i>. Slavery in America has spawned a whole school of historical inquiry, and countless books on the topic. Few of those secondary sources speak with the power of the words spoken by those who lived as slaves, chronicled by the federal government in the depths of a deep national tragedy. <i>Slave Culture</i> does an outstanding job of presenting their testimony in a way that is poignant, easy to use, and a stark reminder of what the Lost Cause was really all about." - <i>Carolina Chronicles Magazine</i>
zlib_text: # SLAVE NARRATIVES
  
  ##  _A Folk History of Slavery in the United States  
  From Interviews with Former Slaves_
  
  #### TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY  
  THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT  
  1936-1938  
  ASSEMBLED BY  
  THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT  
  WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION  
  FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA  
  SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
  
  ###  _Illustrated with Photographs_
  
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  #### WASHINGTON 1941
  
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  ### VOLUME XIV  
  SOUTH CAROLINA NARRATIVES  
  PART 4  
    
  
  ### Prepared by  
  the Federal Writers' Project of  
  the Works Progress Administration  
  for the State of South Carolina
  
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  ## INFORMANTS
  
  Raines, Mary |  [1](text00000.html#filepos0000013305)  
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  Range, Frank |  [3](text00000.html#filepos0000017278)  
  Rawls, Sam |  [5](text00000.html#filepos0000019691) ,
  [7](text00000.html#filepos0000023342)  
  Renwick, Ellen |  [9](text00000.html#filepos0000026157)  
  Rice, Anne |  [10](text00000.html#filepos0000027626)  
  Rice, Jessie |  [12](text00000.html#filepos0000030532) 