“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

dc.contributor.advisorBell, Richard
dc.contributor.authorEarly, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-27T14:08:14Z
dc.date.available2023-03-27T14:08:14Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-27
dc.descriptionWinner of the 2023 Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Library Award.
dc.description.abstractThis 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.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/a1sl-0qgc
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29751
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subjectOral Historyen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Slaveryen_US
dc.subjectFormerly Enslaveden_US
dc.subjectWPAen_US
dc.subjectJohn B. Cadeen_US
dc.subjectSouthern Universityen_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 Projecten_US
dc.typeresearch paperen_US

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