WPA Slave Narrative Collection
WPA Slave Narrative Collection
New Deal oral history recording project.
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Readers' pathsAug 2026 – Oct 2026
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Federal Writers' Project
1935–1945 U.S. government New Deal program.
19%
Slave narrative
Autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons.
16%
Works Progress Administration
U.S. government program of the 1930s and 1940s.
14%
Indian-Pioneer Project
1930s U.S. oral histories.
12%
John Lomax
American musicologist and folklorist (1867–1948).
8.9%
William Andrew Johnson
Formerly enslaved American pastry chef (1858–1943).
7.2%
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Federal Writers' Project
1935–1945 U.S. government New Deal program.
27%
Peter (enslaved man)
Escaped American slave in 1863 photograph.
13%
Torture of slaves in the United States
11%
Jambalaya
Rice dish with meat and vegetables.
9.7%
Soul food
Ethnic cuisine of Black Americans.
4.4%
Slave narrative
Autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons.
2.6%
White slave propaganda
American abolitionist propaganda using white-looking slaves.
2.2%
Family separation in American slavery
2%