Race and the WPA slave narratives: A lesson in historiography
When the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression, the federal government hired dozens of American writers and journalists to interview elderly Americans who could recall being enslaved. Employed under the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), these writers were charged with documenting the history and realities of slavery from the perspectives of those who experienced it.
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- When the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression, the federal government hired dozens of American writers and journalists to interview elderly Americans who could recall being enslaved. Employed under the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), these writers were charged with documenting the history and realities of slavery from the perspectives of those who experienced it.
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