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Born in Slavery: Slave
Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, in American Memory.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives
from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938,
contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white
photographs of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project
of the Works Progress Administration.
These online exhibits
provide context and additional information about this collection.
An
Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives
Voices and Faces
from the Collection
These historical
era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Civil War and Reconstruction --
1850-1877
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From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
The African American
Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
American Life Histories
First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
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sources of information.
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About It! - A bibliography
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