The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38396   Message #539456
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
31-Aug-01 - 11:37 PM
Thread Name: Slave Narrative from TX - folkloric
Subject: RE: Slave Narrative from TX - folkloric
There haven't been more than 2-3 Mudcat sites I couldn't access through clickies but there are some other URLS that were denied. Our Netscape is serviced by an outfit called Excite which is in or near receivership. We hope it will go under and be replaced. I counted about 70 of these slave interviews from Texas and in this archive there must be many hundreds from the states where the project existed. The various writers projects during the depression turned out a fantastic volume of work and preserved much that would otherwise been lost. I can imagine folk-ballad writers going through this material and finding inspiration.