Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
592
Utgivningsdatum
2025-09-17
Förlag
Louisiana State University Press
Dimensioner
41 x 235 x 155 mm
Vikt
953 g
ISBN
9780807183021

Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana

The WPA Narratives

av Andrea Livesey
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2025-09-17
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In the 1930s, thousands of formerly enslaved Americans were interviewed across the United States as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project. While most of those interviews were subsequently published, Louisiana's were not. Gathered here for the first time in complete and contextualized form are the full interviews with the formerly enslaved in Louisiana, the transcripts of which had been separated, fragmented, and distributed throughout archives in the state. Reassembled and analyzed by historian Andrea Livesey, the interviews are critical for understanding how Black Louisianans experienced enslavement but also resisted and built distinctive cultures, communities, and families in spite of it. Equally important is the testimony of how they negotiated emancipation and built relationships after freedom. Livesey discusses the impact of Lyle Saxon, a well-known writer who headed the Louisiana branch of the Writers' Project, and Louisiana poet Marcus B. Christian, who led the segregated Black unit. Other unique aspects of the collection are interviews in Kouri Vini and Louisiana French and descriptions of Voodoo, Marie Laveau, and medicine practiced in Black communities of the era. Livesey invites readers to pay critical attention to how the interviewers may have influenced the narrative preserved in the archive through interpersonal dynamics or editing as they transcribed the interview. Alongside the extended introduction to the volume, this analysis sheds light on the administrative structures and racialized dynamics that initially shaped the interviews.

Övrig information

Andrea H. Livesey teaches history at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She holds a doctorate in history from the University of Liverpool.

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