Slave Narratives

TNC talks to a historian about primary documents:

All oral histories are "memory" -- retrospectiveaccounts, in contrast with documents like wills or memos that were producedwhen events were actually taking place. Over time, people forget and revise, aswhen many Holocaust survivors began to retell their stories to match up withthe narrative of Schindler's List. It is not dishonesty -- it just makes oralhistories a particular type of document, which we need to note has beenproduced AFTER the...