dc.contributor.advisor	Bell, Richard
dc.contributor.author	Early, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.department	History	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-27T14:08:14Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-27T14:08:14Z
dc.date.issued	2023-03-27
dc.description	Winner of the 2023 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Library Award.
dc.description.abstract	This thesis analyzes the two Great Depression Era efforts to interview the survivors of slavery. The first effort was conducted in the early 1930s by John B. Cade at Southern University, a historically Black University. The individuals involved with this project sought to dispel the popular and misleading 'contented slave argument' by interviewing survivors of slavery. The second project, conducted by the New Deal's Work's Progress Administration, was created to provide economic relief to educated Black Americans. This thesis contextualizes these projects, and evaluates how or if they met their original goals.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/a1sl-0qgc
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29751
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	Oral History	en_US
dc.subject	American Slavery	en_US
dc.subject	Formerly Enslaved	en_US
dc.subject	WPA	en_US
dc.subject	John B. Cade	en_US
dc.subject	Southern University	en_US
dc.title	“A Quest for the Truth:” An Analysis of the Background and Context behind the Southern University Slave Narrative Project and the WPA Slave Narrative Project	en_US
dc.type	research paper	en_US

“A Quest for the Truth:” An Analysis of the Background and Context behind the Southern University Slave Narrative Project and the WPA Slave Narrative Project

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