American slave, volume 17: Florida narratives, The.

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

American slave, volume 17: Florida narratives, The.

Entry/Object ID

Library.2049

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Description

379 pages ; 24 cm. The American slave: a composite autobiography: volume 17: Florida narratives by George P. Rawick, General editor. Reprint of 1941 edition. Informants: Anderson -- Andrews -- Austin -- Berry -- Biddie -- Boyd -- Boynton -- Brooks -- Bynes -- Campbell -- Clayton -- Coates -- Coker -- Davis -- Dorsey -- Douglass -- Duck -- Dukes -- Everett -- Gaines -- Gantling -- Gragston -- Gresham -- Hall -- Hooks -- Jackson -- Kemp -- Kinsey -- Lee -- Lycurgas -- McGray -- Maxwell -- Moore -- Mullon -- Napoleon -- Nickerson -- Prish -- Pretty -- Scott -- Sherman -- Smalls -- Taswell -- Taylor -- Thomas -- Towns -- Williams -- Wilson. Jacksonville interviews: Rachel A. Austin, field worker, with interview of Samuel Simeon Andrews in the dormitory of Edward Waters College -- Frank Berry claims to be a grandson of Osceola and lives in Jacksonville -- Florida Clayton lived in Jacksonville with her sister -- Father Charles Coates interviewed by Viola Muse -- Irene Coates -- Davis interview in Jacksonville -- Douglas Dorsey of South Jacksonville -- Clayton Gantling interviewed in Jacksonville -- Harriett Gresham interviewed in Jacksonville -- Rev. Squires Jackson interviewed in Jacksonville -- Randall Lee interviewed in Palatka -- Edward Lyourgas interviewed in Jacksonville -- Lindsay Moore interviewed in Palatka -- Mack Mullen lived in and interviewed in Jacksonville -- Louis Napoleon -- Interview with Margrett Nickerson, Jacksonville -- Anne Scott went to West Coast of Africa and later moved to Jacksonvile -- Samuel Smalls of Jacksonville -- Acie Thomas of Jacksonville -- Shack Thomas of Jacksonville -- Luke Towns of Jacksonville -- Willis Williams of Jacksonville. Quality of reproduction varies; some very readable, some not so. Author info: George Philip Rawick (December 8, 1929 – June 27, 1990) was an American academic, historian, and socialist, best known for his editorship of a 41-volume set of oral histories of former slaves, titled The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography.

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Library

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Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Slavery -- Florida., Slave narratives -- Florida., Slaves -- Southern States -- Biography., African Americans -- Florida.

Publication Details

Author

Rawick, George P., 1929-

Publisher

Greenwood Pub. Co.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Westport, Conn

Call No.

E 445 .F6 R3 1976

ISBN

0837163153

LCCN

71-38591