![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. There are plantations that have two slaves, plantations that have 80 slaves, and just seeing the variety of the slave experience allowed me to have less anxiety about making my own plantation, because there are so many different combinations that existed.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Underground Railroad Author Colson Whitehead It was another thing in Georgia once the cotton boom starts up in the early 1800s. Slavery was one thing in Maryland in the 1780s. It was a great resource just to get slang and an idea of, as a writer, the variety of a plantation experience. Some are a paragraph, some are three pages, and they're very, sort of, matter of fact of what went on. They sent writers to interview 80-year-old, 90-year-old former slaves, people who were young when the Civil War came around. The famous ones - Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs - but also the ones collected by the U.S. My main research was reading slave narratives. I think it's the dominators - the slave catchers and the slave masters - who write the chronicle of 17th- and 18th-century America. I think the slave catcher's point of view is probably the default setting on American history. ![]() ![]() I actually didn't research the slave catcher's point of view. ![]()
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