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Born in Slavery-Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938.

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Born in Slavery-Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938

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Housed at the Library of Congress, this collection contains over 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).

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