WEEVILES IN THE WHEAT: INTERVIEWS WITH VIRGINIA EX-SLAVES

Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips. Compiled and Edited By

ISBN 10: 025320237X / ISBN 13: 9780253202376

Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1980

About this Item

Originally published by The University Press of Virginia with ISBN0-8139-0396-6. xlv. Illustrations. Index. 405pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. These slave narratives were collected by the Virginia Writers' Project between 1936 and 1941 and are the only accounts of slave life to have been gathered by black interviewers. Seller Inventory # 005839

Bibliographic Details

Title: WEEVILES IN THE WHEAT: INTERVIEWS WITH ...

Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+++

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Paperback Edition

Book Type: Soft Cover

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Synopsis:

Taken from the records of the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s, these interviews with one-time Virginia slaves provide a clear window into what it was like to be enslaved in the antebellum American South.

About the Author:

Charles L. Perdue Jr., Associate Professor of Folklore and Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the editor of Outwitting the Devil: Jack Tales from Wise County Virginia. Thomas E. Barden, Professor of English at Toledo University, is the author of The Travles of Peter Woodhouse: Memoir of an American Pioneer and editor of Virginia Folk Legends (Virginia). Robert K. Phillips is Professor of English at Lander College, Greenwood, South Carolina.