Mississippi Slave Narratives Exhibits Each porcelain canister is covered

Each porcelain canister is covered in beautiful

Hard-boiled breakfasts

and death as organized by Jefferson

and courage of Black women and girls

four decades after Nixon was forced to resign

Mississippi Slave Narratives Exhibits Each porcelain canister is coveredThe 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