During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers Project interviewed 2,000 former slaves as part of a larger overall effort to record the remarkable history of the diverse ...

"Times don't change, just the merchandise": Ex-slave Sarah Francis Shaw Graves' take on the world was an understandably bitter one, and her words provide an unfiltered look at a painful and tragic ...

During the Great Depression, long before anyone had ever heard of oral history as a respectable academic enterprise, the Works Progress Administration authorized the Federal Writers’ Project to track ...

A living history of a shameful era makes for memorable television Feb. 10 on HBO. Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives is a remarkable collection of the first-person stories of ...

Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project. This HBO film interpretation directed by Ed Bell ...

Set to air February 10, the HBO documentary chronicled by this book (and sharing its title) is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and features dramatic readings by Samuel L. Jackson, Ossie Davis, Oprah ...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of ...

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