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Monthly Archives: August 2022
WPA Slave Narratives – When Slaves Learned They Were Free, Part 1: “Root, Pig, or Die.”
The WPA Slave Narratives, the folk history accounts produced from interviews with surviving ex-slaves in the late 1930s, contain numerous accounts of former slaves telling about the moment they learned they were free. The following account from this source is … Continue reading
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