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In this, you will analyze interviews. Under the New Deal program Works Progress Administration, the government sent out historians with wire recorders to interview men and women who had firsthand experience with slavery. The resulting Born in Slavery collection is available at the Library of Congress. This is an incredible resource, as we can hear stories from those who actually experienced slavery. A great many of those interviewed were either illiterate or barely literate and left no other accounts of their experiences beyond oral tradition.

You can access transcripts of the interviews ：https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

You can access a few of the actual recordings：http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/

spend some time reading stories to get a feel for what life was like for American slaves.

Your assignment is to select the account of at least one person, and answer the following questions.

Why did you pick the account(s)?

What surprises you about the person’s story?

What confirms ideas you already had about slavery?

What lessons can be taken from the account?

Please follow the writing guidelines given in the course information tab. You should show that you have seriously considered the readings to get full points for the assignment. Your response needs to be a minimum of 500 words.