Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

Harriet Jacobs endured seven years of hiding in an attic crawl space in order to escape the terror and misery of her life as a slave. "I lived in that little dismal ...

Agatha Babineaux was living at a cottage behind Blessed Sacrament Church in the Charlton-Pollard neighborhood in December 1937 when researchers with the government’s Work Projects Administration ...

When Dionne Babineaux began combing through the “Slave Narratives” compiled in the late 1930s by the Work Projects Administration, formerly known as the Works Progress Administration, she had no idea ...