If You Truly Knew What The N-Word Meant To Our Ancestors, You´d NEVER Use It
(World News USA)

www.theundefeated.com BY BRANDO SIMEO STARKEY A few years ago, I read slave narratives to explore the lives of black agricultural workers after the end of the Civil War. The narratives came from the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, a program that employed researchers from 1936 to 1938 to interview former enslaved people, producing more than 2,300 narratives that, thankfully, reside online and are fully searchable. Those whom the law defined as property recounted various unique human experiences - their daily horrors and monotonies, how they freed themselves or learned of their emancipation, the surge of exhilaration upon securing freedom, and how they endured...