Spencer R Crew

Field to factory: Afro-American migration 1915-1940

Sections on labor recruiters, the black press, letters and visits home, life in the south, farm work, southern schools, the decision to move, community and church, heading north, a journey in stages, up north, housing, a mixed reception, factory work, discrimination on the job, blacks and unions, bl...

Slave Culture [3 volumes]: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project

For the first time, the WPA Slave Narratives are organized by theme, making it easier to examine―and understand―specific aspects of slave life and culture.• Provides topically arranged access to views expressed in the slave narratives, something never done before• Offers students both contextual ana...

Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation

"Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation" is a scholarly anthology on the Emancipation Proclamation with contributions from leading Lincoln historians and government officials. Topics covered in the anthology range from views of the Proclamation through the eyes of enslaved ...

Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives

This book offers a first-person perspective on the institution of slavery in America, providing powerful, engaging interviews from the WPA slave narrative collection that enable readers to gain a true sense of the experience of enslavement.• Provides a historical overview of the scholarship on slave...

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. The book is an adaptation of HBO's documentary special for 2003, also titled Unchained Memories . From slave a...

The American Presidency, A Glorious Burden

Book by Lonnie Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Mark G.Hirsch, Harry R. Rubenstein

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Bound for Glory 1910-1930: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance

Black Life in Secondary Cities: A Comparative Analysis of the Black Communities of Camden and Elizabeth, N.J., 1860-1920