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The Sankofa Institute Online: Unchained memories
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Robert Gelinas
During the 1930’s, in order to reduce unemployment during the Great Depression, the government funded The Federal Writers’ Project. One of their assignments was to interview many of the 100,000 former slaves that were still alive in the United States. I first came across these slave narratives when I was in middle school. I remember…
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