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“EX-SLAVE PORTRAITS”(1930-1940)

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Born in Slavery:Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’Project,1936-1938 contains more than 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 of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives:A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

9 comments to “EX-SLAVE PORTRAITS”(1930-1940)

Portraits of Ex-Slaves,1930s | Retronaut
March 19,2012 at 2:01 am
[...] Source:Library of Congress via These Americans [...]
ASX (American Suburb X) un site à explorer à l’infini «Frondaisons
April 12,2012 at 8:28 am
[...]:Ex-slave portraits présentés sur le site http://www.theseamericans.com/galleries/american-slave-portraits/) Partagez [...]
Celeste Moreno
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
These are remarkable!
Cathy Cooper
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
powerful,those images.
Marcia Moreno
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
I had to view them twice. They just draw you in don’t they?
Christine Kreuer Stalnaker
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
Oh the stories they must have had to tell. Powerful,indeed..
Amy Beth Geerling Payne
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
don’t eff with that mary rice,age 94 –(9 rows down,all the way to the right)
Greta Sproul
December 24,2012 at 12:02 am
everyone should check these photographs out. not just americans or student in need of a black history month project. these are not just the stories ofn former slaves in the 19th century american south,they are testimonials to the invincibility of the human spirit. try as they might,the oppressors of the world,just never ever ever seem to get it:in the end…JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAILS.
Portraits d’anciens esclaves «Curiosités de Titam
January 19,2013 at 10:15 am
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