These pictures of former slaves were taken in the 1930’s as part of the Federal Writers Project which was part of the Work Progress Administration.

The Federal Writers’ Project operated during the Great Depression and unemployed writers were asked to collect the life stories of a large cross section of Americans across all class and racial lines.

These images of former slaves are part of a group of 500 photographs and over 2,000 first-person accounts of what it was like to be a slave.

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