WPA Slave Narratives

 
 

WPA Slave Narratives

This collection of histories by formerly enslaved people was undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It contains firsthand accounts of formerly enslaved people’s experiences during and after the institution of chattel slavery.

 
 

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