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Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
The Federal Writers' Project ... George Dillard's oral history was recorded in 1936 for the Slave Narrative Collection by the Federal Writers ... (He was born in ...
More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now The post ‘Born in Slavery’ shares stories of formerly enslaved people.
In 1937 when she was one hundred years old, the Federal Writers' Project of The Works Project Administration recorded her oral history, in Montgomery, Alabama. [1] During this testimony, she offered first-person testimony of the horrors of the slave trade , "when babies were snatched from their mothers breasts," and of being sold six times ...
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938, Library of Congress. A selection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people in the United States. Civil Rights History Project, Library of Congress. A collection of interviews with people who participated in the Civil Rights struggle up through and ...
While working for the WPA, Cunningham contributed to the W.P.A Guide to Oklahoma, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, and a Comanche dictionary. [2] [5] Cunningham then moved to New York, where he worked in journalism and published two more books, including one co-authored with his wife, Sara Brown ...
As Rep. Ted Lieu pushes a new Federal Writers' Project, 'Republic of Detours,' a diverting new history of the original program, holds valuable lessons.