Talk:WPA Slave Narrative Collection

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Did you know... that the Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narrative Collection included interviews, conducted primarily between 1936 and 1938, with more than 2,000 former slaves?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2013/February.

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File:Wes Brady, ex-slave, Marshall edited.jpg to appear as POTD

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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Wes Brady, ex-slave, Marshall edited.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 28, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-02-28. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:28, 10 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Picture of the day

A 1937 photograph of Wes Brady, a former slave. Born c. 1850, Brady had been owned by a farmer in Marshall, Texas before emancipation. As a young boy he worked the fields, picking cotton. He recalled "The rows was a mile long and no matter how much grass was in them, if you leaves one sprig on your row they beats you nearly to death."

This portrait is part of the Slave Narrative Collection, a massive compilation of slave narratives – containing 10,000 typed pages representing more than 2,000 interviews – which was undertaken by the US Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.Photograph: Federal Writers' Project; restoration: Chick Bowen

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