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The African American Folklorist Ep 2 – Elijah Cox
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On this episode of The African American Folklorist, I share the story of the born free, African American Traditional Music Practitioner Elijah Cox, who was a fiddler, Buffalo soldier, and recorded in 1935 at the age of 93 for the Library of Congress Elijah Cox was also interviewed and recorded for the Born in…
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Elisha Cox – WPA Slave Narrative
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley Jack Dappa Blues has been producing podcasts re-introducing the WPA’s Slave Narrative to our audience. We are currently working on more…however, here’s a nice littles something to wet your whistle. Jack Dappa Blues Public Media is where you come to be re-introduced to your African American Traditional Music history…
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Slave Narrative – Silas Abbott
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). As a…