Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
By Work Projects Administration
- Release Date: 2009-12-02
- Genre: Social Science
Description
It was a massive compilation of slave narratives undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of theWorks Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of FWP in seventeen states, working largely separately from each other.