COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Ex-Slave
Creator:
Peterson, Jessica
Description:
Bound in paper covered boards. Printed with photopolymer plates on Frankfurt paper. The cover, endsheet and inset papers are dyed with India ink and acrylic paint. The contents of this book are taken from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. The Writers' project ran from 1936 to 1938 during which over 2,000 interviews of former slaves were conducted. There was a methodology used in the interviews in how to transcribe the vernacular of the former slaves. This book by Jessica Peterson contains two narratives. Amy Chapman and George Young were slaves on the plantation of Governor Reuben Chapman which was located near Livingston, Alabama. In gathering information for this book Peterson found that parts of the original transcript of Amy Chapman's interview were excluded from the official Writers' Project Document. These excerpts have been included in this book and are identified by a thin line along the inside margin.
Subject:
African Americans in art
Subject:
Enslaved persons
Subject:
Federal Writers' Project
Subject:
Narrative art
Subject:
Slave narratives
Publisher:
Paper Souvenir
Date:
2008
Coverage:
Alabama
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
48 pages ; 17 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Acrylic paint
Format/Medium:
Case binding (bookbinding process)
Format/Medium:
Hardcover books
Format/Medium:
India ink (ink)
Format/Medium:
Miniature books
Format/Medium:
Photopolymer plates (printing plates)
Source:
Ex-Slave, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b12882033
Identifier:
i12237693
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
