During the Great Depression the WPA interviewed over 2000 older African Americans who had been enslaved.  Their stories changed how scholars thought about slavery and its impact upon the individuals forced to live under it.  How their voices and their views refocused historical interpretations of slavery will be the subject of this presentation.

SUGGESTED READING:

"The Background of the Slave Narrative Collection," Norman R. Yetman

Cosponsored by the Masters in Heritage Studies and Public History program, the Minnesota Historical Society, the departments of American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History, and the Givens Collection/Umbra Search African American History.