{"product_id":"remembering-slavery-african-americans-talk-about-their-personal-experiences-of-slavery-and-emancipation-9781620970287","title":"Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produced in this country.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination--and conscience--once again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo group of people better understood the power of slavery's legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of \u003cem\u003eRemembering Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, \u003cem\u003eRemembering Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemembering Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature--nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including \u003cem\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNightline\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCBS Sunday Morning\u003c\/em\u003e, and CNN. 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