Kentucky Slave Narratives cup and saucer Trethewey’s first retrospective

Trethewey’s first retrospective

In the late 1930s

Written by Barb Rosenstock with illustrations by John O' Brien

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Kentucky Slave Narratives cup and saucer Trethewey’s first retrospectiveThe view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex slaves