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Summary: Real American History
Review: MIGHTY ROUGH TIMES, I TELL YOU is a book that tells the real history, what really happened. This book reveals the atrocities of one of the worst crimes in American history, slavery. The former slaves tell their histories in their own words. Some give more information about their lives than do others. The narratives that stood out to me were, "I Expect I am the Oldest Man in Nashville," "There Wasn't No Learning Going on in Slavery," "You Couldn't Go Nowhere Without a Pass," "Stock Was Treated a Great Deal Better," "I Want to Build Up," and "I've Been Here to Hear it Thunder." Anyone who is interested in American history should read this book because it tells the truth about a piece of American history that has been misrepresented through lies.
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Summary: Real American History
Review: MIGHTY ROUGH TIMES, I TELL YOU is a book that tells the real history, what really happened. This book reveals the atrocities of one of the worst crimes in American history, slavery. The former slaves tell their histories in their own words. Some give more information about their lives than do others. The narratives that stood out to me were, "I Expect I am the Oldest Man in Nashville," "There Wasn't No Learning Going on in Slavery," "You Couldn't Go Nowhere Without a Pass," "Stock Was Treated a Great Deal Better," "I Want to Build Up," and "I've Been Here to Hear it Thunder." Anyone who is interested in American history should read this book because it tells the truth about a piece of American history that has been misrepresented through lies.
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Summary: Probably the best of the Series
Review: This is probably the best in the series of the interviews with former slaves done in the 1930s-in this case Tennessee. Here we get info on a long-forgotten lynching that tookplace in Nashville in 1892 and an early look at life at Fisk University. What makes these stand apart from the others is the fact that since Black Students from Fisk University interviewed these ex-slaves in 1929-30 (not to be confused with the later WPA Slave narratives), they felt freer to express themselves than they would have with White interviewers at the time. We get an eyeful to read as a result and a vairutally untarnished view. However, many of these are anonymous since some of the ex-slaves feared retributution for their remarks. All in all, an excellent read and a treasure chest for historians. There was another book that was written in 1968 from the Fisk University Slave narratives called "Unwritten History of Slavery" that contains some of the same material. Interesting to compare the two.
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