WPA Slave Project

Question

During the Depression, the Works Progess Administration created a Born in Slavery writers’ project. This covered over 2300 first hand accounts of slavery in 17 states. See https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/ for the records that have been digitized.

There are some very sad stories, but it is an excellent source of information.

Answer 1

Thanks Cindy! Amazing stories to be found there.

The US Black Heritage Project has a team page of these Narratives and profiles created. Many of the states have been completed.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Freedmen_Narratives

Answer 2

Tyvm for posting this. Great reading  and information.