- Title:
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- Date of Original:
- 1936/1938
- Subject:
- African Americans
Slavery - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- interviews
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Georgia selections from the Library of Congress' Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. In 2000-2001, with major support from the Citigroup Foundation, the Library digitized the narratives from the microfilm edition and scanned from the originals 500 photographs, including more than 200 that had never been microfilmed or made publicly available. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 4, Georgia, Part 1, Adams-Furr. 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn041/.
- Original Collection:
- Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA), Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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