Accounts
104-year-old ex-slave interviewed to record her oral history of being a slave
Who is Susan Hamlin?
The owner of a plantation
What is a planter?
Newly liberated slaves
Who are freedpeople?
cultural memory passed down by word of mouth
What is oral history?
“The project's primary goal was to compile and publish cultural guides to each of the forty-eight states, using unemployed writers and journalists.”
What is the Federal Writers' Project?
the interviewer of Susan Hamlin
Who is Jessie Butler?
this is what caused slaves and ex-slaves to lie to white people during interviews
What is fear of repercussions?
This is something freed slaves were promised by the government and often not actually given
What is land?
This is a method by which a cultural memory might be collected
What is an interview?
head of the Federal Writers’ Project
Who is John Avery Lomax?
the state where Susan Hamlin lived
What is South Carolina?
This was a common and brutal physical punishment for slaves
What is whipping?
This is a type of union slaves often renewed after being freed
What is marriage?
These two opposed things are required for accurate historical accounts
What are both sides of the story?
This was the number of interviews conducted by the FWP
How many is over 2,300?
this is what Susan Hamlin's interviewer allowed Hamlin to believe she was
What is a welfare worker?
This was something ironically grand that planters would give their slaves to demean them
What are historical names?
This is what the Union promised slaves late in the Civil War
What is emancipation?
This was a relatively new form of media recorded the realities of freed slaves during the Civil War
What are photographs?
This was a something ex-slaves did that made it hard for interviewers to get good information out of them
What is deception/telling the interviewers what they want to hear?
This man was Susan Hamlin's master when she was an adult
Who is Mr. Edward Fuller?
This was the general who marched through and burned much of the South, subsequently freeing many slaves in the process as their masters fled
Who is General Sherman?
This is something freed slaves would often give themselves to symbolically cuts ties with their masters' control over them
What is a new name?
This man was the historian who used only white Southern sources in his records, giving him a sharply skewed vision of the reality of the lives of slaves and ex-slaves.
Who is William Dunning?
This was the president under which the FWP was started
Who is FDR?