Pre-Owned Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (Hardcover) by Cynthia Goodman, Spencer Crew, Henry Louis Gates

An adaptation of HBOUs documentary special for 2003, "Unchained Memories" is a riveting compilation of more than 40 narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. From slave auctions to emancipation, the narratives trace the extraordinary experience of life in perhaps the darkest period of the nation's history.