From 1936 to 1938, interviewers gathered accounts from 2,300 formerly enslaved people. They’ve been largely hidden ever since.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/3tTjDwU

The stories swirling about the room weren’t famous accounts of extraordinary people; rather, they were the words of all-but-forgotten individuals who bore witness to the quotidian brutality of chattel slavery.

↩︎ The Atlantic

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