There is a moment in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel “Invisible Man,” when the narrator arrives in New York City and is amazed by what he perceives as the unlimited freedom enjoyed by the city’s Black ...
Gloria Feimster, a 92-year-old Raleigh native, told WRAL News she discovered part of her grandmother’s story lives in the Library of Congress. Her grandmother, Emma Blalock, was interviewed in 1937 ...
His account of bondage in Edenton described men flogged 100 times and doused with brandy to increase the pain, and white owners so cruel they whipped other people’s slaves for failing to tip their ...
Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...
When Dionne Babineaux began combing through the “Slave Narratives” compiled in the late 1930s by the Work Projects Administration, formerly known as the Works Progress Administration, she had no idea ...
v. 1. Alabama narratives -- v. 2. Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, and Oregon and Washington narratives -- v. 3. Georgia narratives, part 1 -- v. 4. Georgia ...
Agatha Babineaux was living at a cottage behind Blessed Sacrament Church in the Charlton-Pollard neighborhood in December 1937 when researchers with the government’s Work Projects Administration ...
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