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Subject:	Re: Slave Narrative for WPA Project
From:	Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 03:19:42 -0500
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P.S.  Please note that the majority of interviews with former slaves 
still living in Virginia do not appear in the Library of Congress 
online collection, because (for a variety of reasons) they--like some 
others--didn't make it into the main Washington archive.  The 
authoritative collection of Virginia interviews, therefore, is Charles 
L. Perdue Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, eds., Weevils 
in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (Charlottesville: 
University of Virginia Press, 1992).

An unusually high number of Virginia interviewers were black, so we 
have reason to surmise that the Virginia interviews may be more 
uniformly accurate than those from other states.

--Jurretta

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