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 ...
More than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery in America have been digitized and compiled for a collection that is now available online on the Library of Congress website. “Born in Slavery: Slave ...
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 ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kari Winter, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of global gender and sexuality studies, is writing a screenplay for a four-part television miniseries that she hopes will bring the ...
Long-time academic researcher and consultant Sheila Smith McKoy first read the 1868 memoir of Hillsborough resident Elizabeth Keckley when she was an undergraduate English student at N.C. State ...
The project goal: ID every person enslaved before 1865 in the present-day U.S. ABC News reporter Alex Presha sits down with "10 Million Names" historians Dr. Kendra Field and Dr. Vincent Brown to ...
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 ...
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives. By Jennifer Wilson In 1937, workers with the Federal Writers’ Project (F.W.P.), a New Deal program for unemployed writers, were ...
School kids have read a few famous accounts of slavery for generations - stories of people like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. These are often tales of resistance, rebellion and daring escapes ...
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