UNCHAINED MEMORIES

Movie Description:
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than 4 million slaves were set free. By the late 1930`s, 100,000 formerslaves were still alive. In the midst ofthe Great Depression, the Federal Writers Project hired journalists and writers to travel the country and recordthe memories of this last generation ofAfrican-Americans born into bondage. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time, to form a unique historicalrecord - first-hand accounts ofwhat it was to be a slave.