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As the historian Catherine Stewart has argued, the WPA ex-slave interviews must be considered within the context of race relations in the 1930s and a kind of fetishization and commodification of stereotypical images of Southern blacks. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2023

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1. The narrative of the contented slave was at one point so ubiquitous it was cliche. (It was also a prominent in slaveholder propaganda.) 2. This is a good example of why its unwise to approach primary source documents without any larger context. — PolitiTweet.org

There’s many accounts like this. I am in no way advocating for slavery, but simply showing there are alternative pe… https://t.co/qhTDJwjjfH

Posted Feb. 27, 2023

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What’s more, the ex-slaves themselves do not come to us unmediated, just the opposite, they are filtered through the mostly-white interviewers who come with their own expectations, biases and prejudices. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2023