Born in slavery [electronic resource] : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 / Manuscript Division, Library of Congress and Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

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English
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[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress
Description
Began in 2001?

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Available Online

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Presents more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. Provides links from individual photographs to the corresponding narratives. Collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the narratives were assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume work entitled Slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States, from interviews with former slaves.
Notes
  • Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 25, 2004).
  • Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Other title(s)
  • Slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  • Slave narratives.
LCCN
2001561576
OCLC
47265597
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