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On Being Sold Library of Congress
National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox The Making of African American Identity: Vol. I, 1500-1865 __On Being sold *Selections from the WPA interviews of formerly enslaved African Americans, 1936-1938 Over 2300 former slaves were interviewed during the Great Depression of the 1930s by members of the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal agency in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Note: Selections from the narratives are presented as transcribed. Black interviewees often referred to them-selves with terms that in some uses are considered offensive. Some white interviewers, despite project guidelines for transcribing the narratives, used stereotypical patterns of representing black speech.
__On Being Sold * Selections from the WPA interviews of formerly enslaved African Americans, 1936-1938 . Over 2300 former slaves were interviewed during the ... would strip ’em stark naked. A nigger scarred up or whaled an’ welted up wus considered a bad nigger an’ did not bring much. If his body wus not scarred, he brought a good price.
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