An Interview With an American Slave

This is the name of the former slave who currently lives in Bethany, Arizona. He is about 95 years old and lives in a hut with a land. Since he was released at the age of 20, he has been doing maintenance and gardening work for local urban residents. However, in most cases, Bach protects himself. He has neither a wife nor a child. He is only 5 feet 4 feet and weighs about 145 pounds. As a slave, he worked as a Gardner and learned to cook later, but it was released soon.

The slave's story includes an interview with nearly 2,300 Americans who were formerly slaves. The story keeps track of their experiences as slaves, their memories of the historical story their ancestors told them, and their memories of newly acquired freedoms. Transcribed to FWP writers, including dialects and proverbs, the story usually only contains short observations by the author. For example, half of Native Americans born with slavery, half of black Americans James Green was released, then abducted and sold to Texas slavery.

From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves in the south of the United States were interviewed by writers and journalists with the support of the work progress management bureau. The majority of these old slaves were born during the last years of the slave regime or the civil war and provide direct information on their experiences in farms, cities and small farms. Their story is still an unparalleled resource to understand the life of 4 million slaves in the United States. The reason why WPA's story is very rich is because they capture the voices of slavery in the United States and reveal the quality of life in experience and memory. Each individual story provides a fragmentary microscopic expression of slave life. Together, they provide a comprehensive view of slavery in North America, providing the most convincing of the 19th century most slavery, including labor, resistance and escape, family life, relationship with the hero, religious beliefs It makes it possible to explore some of a certain theme.