Mighty Rough Times I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee David Ebershoff ISBN13: 9781597520546

ISBN13: 9781597520546

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Mighty Rough Times I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee David Ebershoff ISBN13: 9781597520546In 1929, the Social Sciences Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, began recording the oral histories of former slaves. During the mid 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project undertook a similar effort, ultimately compiling more than two thousand interviews and ten thousand pages of material in seventeen states. In this volume, thirty six former slaves living in Tennessee recount what it was like to live under the yoke. Tennessee was not