Podcast Beta
Questions and Answers
What is the total number of first-person accounts of slavery in 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938'?
Answer hidden
When were the narratives collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project?
Answer hidden
How many black-and-white photographs of former slaves are included in 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938'?
Answer hidden
When were the narratives digitized and the photographs scanned from the originals?
Answer hidden
What is the joint presentation of the online collection 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938'?
Answer hidden
How are the published volumes containing edited slave narratives arranged?
Answer hidden
What was assembled and microfilmed in 1941?
Answer hidden
What was renamed as Work Projects Administration (WPA)?
Answer hidden
Who provided major support for digitizing the narratives and scanning photographs?
Answer hidden
Where are administrative files for the project bound?
Answer hidden
Who was the National Advisor on Folklore and Folkways for the FWP?
Answer hidden
In which years did the WPA Federal Writers' Project send out-of-work writers to interview ordinary people?
Answer hidden
Which state's FWP director was responsible for editing and transferring the narratives to Washington, D.C.?
Answer hidden
Who organized the narratives by state and then alphabetically by name of informant within each state?
Answer hidden
When did the FWP lose its funding?
Answer hidden
Who undertook the remaining editing and indexing of the narratives after the FWP lost its funding?
Answer hidden
Where are the multivolume set and other project files housed?
Answer hidden
Who was responsible for collecting ex-slave interviews housed in other archives in later volumes?
Answer hidden
Which anthology contains selections from the Library of Congress collection?
Answer hidden
Where are additional works using these narratives as well as other slave narratives listed?
Answer hidden
