Just ordered this book. This is the history I love to read.
If you’re interested buy the original WPA interviews with surviving slaves I from all over the South...
Be sure to only buy pre 1960 publishing dates if you can find them
All the newer ones are edited for the worse to fit today’s bias that white people suck
Many modern academia and literary houses detest these studies because frequently the slaves speak kindly of their masters and how they were treated and so progressives dismiss them or rewrite them ....i kid you not...they rewrite these slaves own words to suit their bias and claim its for the common good
The early ones are truthful and more fairly representational of the slaves experience which ran from fairly benign to sorta rough but nothing like say Cuba or Brasil
Very enlightening
Some slaves truly feared the overseer and whippings for runaways etc so don’t misunderstand but some adored their masters
It’s a view highly unpopular today and doesn’t fit the narrative
Why did the great migration take the invention of the assembly line?
Why didn’t they all run north in 1866...I mean they were free and Yankees were their liberators