Unchained Memories-Readings from the Slave Narrati

When the Civil war ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930's, 100,000 former slaves were still alive. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers Project hired journalists and writers to travel the country and record the memories of this last generation of African-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historical record - firsthand accounts of what it was to be a slave.

Director: Ed Bell
Director: Thomas Lennin
Director: Thomas Lennon
Producer: Jacqueline Glover
Producer: Lisa Heller
Producer: Liz Gazzano