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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Call Number: Available from Damato Library
Library of Congress: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
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An Introduction to the WPA Slave NarrativesThe Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves, today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA, Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage.
Community Partners:
To continue studying the themes offered in James, CT State Manchester students have free access to the following museums with a student ID:
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and The Amistad Center
- The Mark Twain House and Museum
For Additional Reading and Viewing:
- “Reverse: A Lynching” by Ansel Elkins
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez
- The Book of the Night Women by Marlon James
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Mills
- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Gladys Carmen Bellamy, “A Satire on American Institutions”
- Martin, Jay. “American Civilization Threatens to Destroy Huck” Readings on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. Katie de Koster, Greenhaven Press, 1998, pp. 105-10.
- Richard K. Barksdale. “The Irony of an ‘Uncivilized’ Friendship” Readings on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. Katie de Koster, Greenhaven Press, 1998.
- Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois