WPA Slave Narratives: Additional Information

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Websites

  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938

memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html


  • American Slave Narratives: An online Anthology

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html


  • Been Here So Long: Selection from the WPA American Slave Narrative

http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/index.htm


Other online Library of Congress resources include

  • African American History and Culture 

 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html


  • The African-American Mosaic 

 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html 


  • American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Abolition & Suffrage

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr22a.html#abolition


  • Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom from the collections of the Library of Congress

 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slave.html


Information on the FWP

  • William F. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts: The Origins and Administrative History of the Arts Projects of the Works Progress Administration Columbus, Ohio, 1969


  • Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935-1943 Boston and Toronto, 1972


  •  Penkower, Monty Noam. The Federal Writers' Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.


  •  Soapes, Thomas F. "The Federal Writers' Project Slave Interviews: Useful Data or Misleading Source." Oral History Review 2 (1977): 33-38.


Related Pages

WPA Slave Narratives

WPA Slave Narratives: History

WPA Slave Narratives: Problems
WPA Slave Narratives: Uses

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