Florida Slave Narratives publishing office Each card has a photo

Each card has a photo of an important event or person on one side and a brief biography or account on the other

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Florida Slave Narratives publishing office Each card has a photoThe view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex slaves