Long past slavery, what period of time are you talking about here . Prof. Stewart its very interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. It created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. And so it happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. So, it was kind of the 1930s was the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. So, they have created through that project, it only lasted a ew years, 19361939. That project crated the largest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. So, anyone whos interested can go a
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On a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. They created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. It happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. The 1930s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. They have created through that project, it only lasted a few years, 19361939. It crated the largest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. Anyone interested can use those, and scholars have used them to dramatically transform the way they write about the history of slavery and emancipation and reconsider that. My book took a sligh
The 1930s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. They have created through that project, it only lasted a few years, 19361939. It crated the largest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. Anyone interested can use those, and scholars have used them to dramatically transform the way they write about the history of slavery and emancipation and reconsider that. My book took a slightly different tack by looking at the exslave project. What were the racial politics at the time . Prof. Stewart it was very complicated, there was still a great deal of jim crow racial segregation, not just in seven states but northern places as well. Aspects of racial segregation that would go unaddressed until the Civil Rights Movement and the postworld war ii era, resultin
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