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The ability to hear first hand stories from a former enslaved person should be eye opening for those who take the time to listen. Understanding the past is crucial way in preventing atrocities such as slavery from occurring again. The stories that are shared provide the listener with a closer understanding of what life was like for these individuals that encountered struggles and hardships such as the inability to attend formal schooling from Uncle Bob’s accounts<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The layers here intersect fluently with another because as Bob Ledbetter went through his life experiences, there were other groundbreaking events that were occurring. The timelines shows us that even though Uncle Bob encountered constant struggles, life continued to move in other areas of the world. The mainstream events listed in my timeline show that while America was still in a highly-racist environment, the country focused their attention to other areas like flight with the Wright brothers, the Yankees winning their first World Series, and the creation of the Panama Canal. Historians use these mainstream events to categorize areas of history. These events are separate in history however throughout the life of Uncle Bob Ledbetter, these events are what shaped the society that he lived in at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interview showed an overall lack of events. Perhaps this reflects the society that he lived in because he only reflected on his personal endeavors. There was little mention of mainstream events but he did mention what was important to him: signing, attending church, getting married, and having the ability to vote. This shows that social history are subjective to the interviewee. Unlce Bob Ledbetter felt that going to church and getting married was for more notable than the New York Yankees winning their first World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview is useful for the same reasons that I mentioned in the first portion of this blog. The interview provides first-hand stories for listeners to reflect on when considering the life of people like Bob Ledbetter. Challenges for these interviews relate to the quality of the recording in the interview. The people that are being interviewed are old with little literacy which means there is an abundance of slang that needs to be deciphered through to understand. I assumed the quality of the recordings would not be great and this interview did confirm that. It proved to be quite difficult when trying to record dates that aren’t even mentioned but also simply understanding small phases was difficult due to older technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress mentions that people conducting these interviews were not professional researchers as we understand today.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The people that asked the questions for the interviews were from the Writer’s Project and had jobs such as: actors, directors, painters, etc. By using workers that were not professional researchers, the transcribing process might prove to be difficult because of the different language that is used. Yes, both parties speak English but there are regional dialects<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> like we hear in this interview, specifically in the transcription where only question marks are provided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ability to hear first hand stories from a former enslaved person should be eye opening for those who take the time to listen. Understanding the past is crucial way in preventing atrocities such as slavery from occurring again. The stories that are shared provide the listener with a closer understanding of what life was … Continue reading “Uncle Bob Ledbetter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1141,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}