Slave Narratives

This elegant site from the Museum of the African Diaspora presents audio performancesof nine slave narratives. Maya Angelou delivers the closing and opening remarks, and introduces each tale. Her precise, gravelly voice joins the others collected here. Permeated with emotion, each voice recounts a story as individual "as a fingerprint," plucked from across time and around the globe. Tempe Hendon Durham, who lived to the age of 103 in North Carolina, describes her wedding to Exter, another slave. The Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano recounts four decades of harsh servitude.... (more)

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