Ex-slave Narratives and WPA Interviews

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K-12 Objectives:

  1. Describe the WPA Federal Writers Project.
  2. Identify experiences from transcripts of interviews with ex-slaves.
  3. Identify experiences from narratives written by former slaves.
  4. Synthesize and annotate one slave interview or narrative.
  5. Evaluate historical documents relating to slavery.

Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia, This module was created by John K. Lee University of Virginia