Slave Narratives

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/19/2022
  

  Inside the New Deal Project to Preserve the Oral Histories of 300 Formerly Enslaved Virginians

  That initiative, led by Howard University’s Sterling Brown, included a plan to interview thousands of formerly enslaved people across the South before they died.

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• SOURCE: WAMC
  2/17/2021
  

  Behind The Former Slave Narratives Captured By A New Deal Program

  Writer Clint Smith: "the narratives are full of those moments that remind you of the personhood of these people who in so much of our teaching of history are sort of these silhouettes or these abstractions."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/9/2021
  

  Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It

  by Clint Smith

  "The Federal Writers’ Project ex-slave narratives produced tens of thousands of pages of interviews and hundreds of photographs—the largest, and perhaps the most important, archive of testimony from formerly enslaved people in history."