Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
A chilling witness to slavery's persistent legacy.  --Book Notes, Winter 1999A unique perspective on our not-so-distant past.  --Chicago TribuneChilling [and] riveting.... This project will enrich every American home and classroom.   --Publishers WeeklyIra Berlin's fifty-page introduction is as good a synthesis of current scholarship as one will find, with fresh insights for any reader.  --San Diego Union Tribune[A]n invaluable collection of firsthand accounts by former slaves...captures the texture of everyday slave life from about 1845 through 1865. The interviews include stories of family life, marriage, children, work and religion. They tell us what slaves wore, ate, enjoyed and thought. There are stories of happiness and celebration and of bitterness and brutality.  --Chicago Tribune, James L. Swanson, 25 October 1998