Born in Slavery

Pick one interview from any of the volumes accessed on the About this Collection page. Go to Born in Slavery and explore the three main areas curated at this site.

Discovery 3 introduces you to WPA resources collected in the 1930s and presented here as Born in Slavery. This is one of the most important collections in our nation’s history of enslavement. The interviews and other materials accessed here feature prominently in scholarship, including two of our books this semester. You get to look at […]

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