Personal Accounts of Slavery in Virginia
by
Belinda Hurmence
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record...