Asian American History

Name: Indiana Slave Narratives
Brand: Federal Writers' Project
SKU: 9781557090140
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Indiana Slave Narratives

Federal Writers' Project

Pacific and Indian Oceans

Jeremiah Reynolds

$31.95

The Indian in His Wigwam

Indian Wars of the West

Timothy Flint

$16.95

Korean War Puzzle Book

Grab A Pencil Press

$4.95

Indian Life and Indian History

George Copway

$18.95

History of Baptist Indian Missions

Indian Tribes of North America v2

Indian Tribes of North America v1

An Indian Bibliography

Thomas Warren Field

$26.95

Blackfeet Indian Stories

George Bird Grinnell

$15.95

Chinese-Japanese Cook Book

Jacqueline M. Newman

$14.95

The Japanese in America

Charles Lanman

$24.95

Federal Writers' Project

Indiana Slave Narratives

9781557090140

$16.95

The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who endured. Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the peculiar institution, to describe in their own words what it felt like to be a slave in the United States. —Norman R. Yetman, American Memory, Library of Congress This paperback edition of all of the Indiana narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

A. Hennebold

Citizen U.S.A.

9781429095563

$14.95

Once in a great while an important artifact is suddenly recognized as being so valuable that it demands a wide and immediate audience. Citizen USA, from the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is such an artifact.

The unpublished book was written in 1943 when the author, Charles Ferguson, was the Director of Adult Education at the Manzanar concentration camp where Japanese Americans were incarcerated. In words and photographs, the story chronicles the camp experience through the voice and perspective of a young sansei girl from Hollywood, California. She describes the routine of camp life as well as the fear and uncertainty about the future that she and her family face. At the book’s conclusion she wonders, “Isn’t America still democratic?”

Produced in the form of a photo album, the unpublished work was never forgotten by the Ferguson family. After the author's death, his wife Lois donated the book to JANM in 2003.

Seeing hard truths and difficult circumstances from a child’s point of view is more powerful than ever before. This story will resonate with audiences unimagined in 1943.

John Eliot

Indian Grammar Begun

9781557095756

$16.99

Discover a Lost Language

Originally published in 1666, written by John Eliot, a Puritan minister who went to America to escape religious persecution and found himself learning the native Massachusett language. Eliot eventually created a written language, articulating grammatical rules, and translated the bible into that native language. This is the grammar he created and is a landmark early American linguistic and historical publication.

Grab A Pencil Press

Korean War Puzzle Book

9781945187018

$4.95

Learn about leading figures, important events, interesting facts, and driving forces behind the U.S. involvement in the Korean War. Test your knowledge of this Forgotten War through 13 fact-filled puzzles, including crosswords, word finds, true or false, Sudoku and others.