By Chris Wild
MASHABLE - JAN 31, 2015
We honor 150 years since the abolition of slavery in the United
States. On Jan. 31, 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment,
which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the country.
These portraits of black American men and women who had been slaves
were taken in the late 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project
(FWP) of the Work Progress Administration (WPA). They are part of a
group of 500, together with more than 2,000 first-person accounts of the
experience of being a slave.
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) operated during the Great
Depression of the 1930s and tasked unemployed writers cross the USA with
collecting the life stories of Americans across society. This
particular set of pictures and testimonies was published in 1941 as the
seventeen-volume "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the
United States from Interviews with Former Slaves."
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