A review by jinnayah
My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Personal Accounts of Slavery in North Carolina by

4.0

If you've ever tried to read the Library of Congress' Slave Narratives, you probably found many of them to be rather challenging. Many of the interviewers tried to render the former slaves' accents phonetically, and in the process made them nearly unreadable. (Some people suspect that was the intent.)

In this book, Belinda Hurmence has taken narratives from North Carolina, narrowed it down to participants who were at least 10 years old when slavery ended, corrected the intentional misspellings added by interviewers, and compiled them into a good, if short, collection.

I definitely suggest this for anyone who has an interest in the Slave Narratives, but isn't up for slogging through the interviewer-added obfuscation.