Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938
Private efforts to preserve the life histories of former slaves accounted for only a small portion of the narratives collected during the late 1920s and 1930s. The advent of the New Deal employment programs were created in response to the massive unemployment of the Great Depression and were designed to use unemployed workers on public-works …
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