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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Charlotte Lee By Joseph Conforti, Charlotte Lee
From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Charlotte Lee By Joseph Conforti, Charlotte Lee
From Immigrant to Ethnic
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From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Prudence Hawkins By Joseph Conforti, Prudence Hawkins
From Immigrant To Ethnic: Interview With Prudence Hawkins By Joseph Conforti, Prudence Hawkins
From Immigrant to Ethnic
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An Interpretation Of The Florida Ex-Slaves' Memories Of Slavery & The Civil War, Dianna Zacharias
An Interpretation Of The Florida Ex-Slaves' Memories Of Slavery & The Civil War, Dianna Zacharias
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study is an analysis and interpretation of oral folk history preserved in the Florida Narratives, one state collection of ex-slave narratives from the larger Federal Writers' Project collection compiled in the 1930s. Fifty-four tales were extracted from this state collection and used as a basis for this study. These personal reminiscences, called memorates by folklorists, fell into two categories: slavery and the Civil war. The tales about slavery were compared to the theses and conclusions regarding slavery held by sociologists and The tales about the Civil War and emancipation were gathered by historians.
The comparison revealed that there …