Slave Narratives

Slave Narratives

from the Federal Writers' Project

1936-1938

First-person accounts of slavery

Each story is from one to several pages long. The interviewers were employed under one of the "Alphabet Soup" projects of the FDR administration during the Great Depression, just prior to WWII.

The original images can also be found at the Library of Congress site, as can further background on the Slave Narratives project.

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