Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection
Remembering Slavery: 
Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
 
And one more thing I want you to promise me:  
that you's gonna tell all the children my story.
--Papa Dallas Stewart

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Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila. The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary. Creole Language Library, 8. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991. 

Banks, Ann, ed. First Person America. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Distributed by Random House. 

Blassingame, John W., ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1977. 

Berlin, Ira, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland. Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War. New York, NY: New Press, 1992. 

Bloxom, Marguerite D. Pickaxe and Pencil: References for the Study of the WPA. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982. 

Brewer, Jeutonne P. The Federal Writers' Project: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. 

---. "Songs, Sermons, and Life-Stories: The Legacy of the Ex-Slave Narratives." In The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary, edited by Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, and Patricia Cukor-Avila, 155-71. Creole Language Library, 8. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991. 

Faulk, John H. The Uncensored John Henry Faulk. Foreword by Louis Nizer. Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1985. 

McDonald, William Francis. Federal Relief Administration and the Arts: The Origins and Administrative History of the Arts Projects of the Works Progress Administration. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1969. 

Rawick, George P., ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Contributions to Afro- American and African Studies, edited by George P. Rawick, 35, Supplement, Series 1. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. 12 Vols. 

---, ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Contributions to Afro-American and African Studies, Supplement, Series 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. 10 Vols. 

Wechsler, James. "Record of the Boondogglers." Nation, 18 December1937, pp. 680-83

Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941. A History of American Life Series, Vol. 13. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1948. 

 

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