Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Administrative Files - Selected Records Bearing on the History of the Slave Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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should copy the Negro expressions_.
I much prefer to read _un_edited (but typed) "interviews," and I should like to see as soon as possible all the seventy-five to which Miss Dillard refers. It is most important, too, to secure copies of "slave codes, overseers codes and the like." This item is new and all the states should send in similar material. Yours, John A. Lomax [Document 3] Sent to: North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma. April 14, 1937 Mr. Edwin Bjorkman State Director, Federal Writers' Project Works Progress Administration City Hall, Fifth Floor Asheville, North Carolina |
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