Peterson, Jessica () et al

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COLOPHON: "The book was designed and printed by Jessica Peterson. The typeface is Centaur, printed with photopolymer plates on Frankfurt paper. The cover, endsheet and inset papers are dyed with India ink and acrylic paint. Thank you to Anns Embree, Steve Miller, the staff at the Julia Tutwiller Library at University of West Alabama, and Glenn House and Kathy Fetters for use of their Vandercook printing press.Not signed by the artist.Number: 21/45.Bound in paper covered boards. The contents of this book are taken from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. The Writers' project ran from 1936 to 1938 during which over 2,000 interviews of former slaves were conducted. There was a methodology used in the interviews in how to transcribe the vernacular of the former slaves. This book by Jessica Peterson contains two narratives. Amy Chapman and George Young were slaves on the plantation of Governor Reuben Chapman which was located near Livingston, Alabama. In gathering information for this book Peterson found that parts of the original transcript of Amy Chapman's interview were excluded from the official Writers' Project Document. These excerpts have been included in this book and are identified by a thin line along the inside margin.

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