Good Morning POU! OK, meditate first, now today's narratives from our brave ancestors, on life as a slave in the United States. On "Plantation Life" Jennie Webb De fus' thing I recollect is living in a slave cabin back o' Marse's big house, along wid forty or fifty other slaves. All my childhood life, I can never remember seeing my pa or ma gwine to wuk or coming … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
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Monday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices of Our People
Good Morning POU. Yes, you may need to pray or mediate first. This week's topic will be a somber one. During the 1930s, a massive project to compile the stories of former slaves began by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of the FWP in seventeen states, working largely separately … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices of Our People