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Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin was a historian, professor and author.... His book, Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, is part of the Upton Bell Collection at UMass Lowell Libraries in O'Leary Library, 2nd Floor Special Collections and includes a personal inscription.

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Remembering Slavery by Ira Berlin (Editor); Marc Favreau (Editor); Steven F. Miller (Editor)
Call Number: E 444 .R46 1998
ISBN: 9781565844254
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Early in the 1930s interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project combed the American South in search of former slaves. The interviewers spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery, and preserved the voices of some of them on primitive recording devices. The nearly-inaudible recordings were placed in the Library of Congress, unheard by the general public, but now, remastered with the aid of modern technology, they offer the only known opportunity to hear the voices of former slaves.