‘Lawdy! I was sho’ happy when I was a slave!’: Manipulative editing in the WPA former-slave narratives from Mississippi
Examining the typescripts and manuscripts of interviews in the Mississippi state archives from the WPA project on former slaves reveals the often heavy-handed and manipulative editing that occurred before the narratives were published. Editing occurred on both the state and federal level, apparently...
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Language: | English |
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
2014-07-01
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Series: | L'Ordinaire des Amériques |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/orda/522 |