Author: Elizabeth Barnes

Students will analyze the story of a former enslaved person from their local community. They will look up where they used to live and what their lives looked like during and after slavery. They will also be asked to look for possible issues with a source that was taken down 70 years after the events took place.

Keywords: WPA; local history; slave narratives; slavery; Great Depression; former slaves; Federal Writers' Project; Texas History;

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