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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
First-person accounts of slavery collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s.
More About This Collection
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.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA), Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Holding Institution
Library of Congress
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