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CollectionBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 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. 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 ...
- Contributor: Federal Writers' Project - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2001
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1 and all future children, December 20, 1849] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Receipt for $250.00 as payment for Negro man, January 20, 1840] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Receipt for $500.00 payment for Negro man, January 20, 1840] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Tax receipt of Alpheus Baker of Eufaula, Alabama, May, 1863] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Oath of amnesty for Jonathan Thornton] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 4 x 9 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Bell rack as displayed in museum - Mobile, Alabama] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Bell rack on model, museum in Mobile, Ala.] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Home of Alexander Hamilton, Negro, Eufaula, Alabama] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 7 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Grave of Uncle Joe; died 1888; tombstone erected by B.J. Hoole, son-in-law of General John L. Hunter; "In memory of a trusted slave who continued as a servant after he was freed"; ... 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Grave of Lewis Porter, a slave who died 1853 with tombstone erected by his master Major Porter; Fairview Cemetery, Eufaula, Alabama] 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingOld Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 and the corn crib where she lives 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 3 1/4 x 5 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingPresent day mother and child ... not pure Negro 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingMrs. Mary Crane - 82 yrs. old ex-slave, Mitchell, Ind. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 3 3/4 x 6 in.
- Date: 1937
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Photo, Print, DrawingJames Singleton Black, ex-slave, 83 years old 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 6 x 4 in.
- Date: 1937