Slavery Recordings Go Online Today
Hear the oppression. The Library of Congress has just placed recordings of former U.S. slaves online.
Beginning today people the world over will be able to listen to interviews with ...former slaves through the online presentation "Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories" on the Library of Congress's American Memory web site.
....The newly released digital recordings are raw and fresh, straight from wellspring. The quality is sometimes poor, and here and there words are swallowed or unintelligible. There are transcripts on the site for every recording. The beauty, Taft says, is that the recordings "are the only way you hear how they expressed themselves."
Nearly seven hours of material is available. The recordings were made between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states.
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