Class Year
2025
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Fall 2021
Department 1
First Year Seminar
Abstract
During the Great Depression, a New Deal project intended to create jobs was the Federal Writer's Project. One aspect of this project, the Slave Narrative Project, involved the interviews of over 2,000 former slaves and culminated in a federal collection of information on the lives of enslaved people. This paper focuses on the interview of Sarah Gudger, a 121 year-old former slave from North Carolina. It includes an overview of the content included and excluded from the interview in addition to an analysis of the interview including factors that may have positively or negatively impacted the interview's content, as well as its continued value and usefulness to historians and scholars.
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
White, McKenna C., "The Sarah Gudger Interview: An Analysis" (2021). Student Publications. 948.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/948
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Comments
Written for FYS 184-4: Civil War Memory from 1865 to the Age of BLM